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Issues with China Mobile - NOC Contact? Anyone have a looking glass?
randvegeta
Member, Host Rep
in Help
Seems China mobile has blocked some of our IPS (not all, but a lot). Not blocked by GFW, so no idea what's going on. China Telecom and Unicom seem unaffected. It is specifically a China Mobile issue.
Trying to figure out who to contact, but can't seem to find any NOC contact info.
99% sure it's not a routing issue, but the absence of a looking glass makes it difficult to test. Anyone know of a CM looking glass?
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https://www.peeringdb.com/net/4338 login to see the contact details.
Do people even subscribe to NANOG anymore? I know I might be showing my age. Their mailing list was always good https://www.nanog.org/
Thnx for the feedback.
It's common sense in the mainland that China Mobile has their own blocking policies (blacklist), we call it 'firewall inside firewall'.
You might even not know the exact reason sometimes, last time I checked with the local agent (because my friend's domain get blocked by CM), I was told 'getting an ICP license and host in the mainland is the only way', but it won't work for IPs.
[email protected]
apparantly not the right people... They say they are CMI, not CM.... whatever that means.
CMI external, CM china, iirc
Since 2018, part of GFW enforcement is outsourced to carriers and ISPs.
Change IP address is the only solution if you're banned by GFW or CMCC.
Not banned by GFW. Just blocked by CM. Change of IPs is not really a solution.
If someone used your IP for SS server, it is possible CM itself is doing the blocking https://medium.com/@phoebecross/bypass-gfw-china-2018-2e553a3d9618
in all my time with ss and various circumvention methods, i have never had an ip banned. but i have heard of it.
Good luck. Dealing with them as a paying customer is hard enough, let alone as a 3rd party.
Any updates on this?
Problem was fully resolved months ago! No idea what happened. CM were completely unresponsive. Not all that surprising since we are not actually their customers.
That's great to hear, really love hosthongkong