It has been reported that people who are using China Telecom are unable to access FeedBurner feeds. FeedBurner, which has been acquired by Google Inc since June, 2007, is the leading provider of RSS feeds, powering hundreds of thousands of blog, podcast and news feeds (August 27, 2007: Feedburner is feeding 535,003 publishers who've burned 913,490 feeds).
Moon-Blog, who has done a traceroute from China to check the block, found that the traceroute failed at the backbone level in China, blocked by 202.97.33.110 IP. “This IP address is a main router of China Telcom. It’s confirm that the Greate FireWall’s IP blocking works,” he said, adding that “because Feedburner provides content from countless websites. It could conceivably carry some information the Chinese authorities think it shouldn’t. So they try to blocks it.”
“This goes beyond blocking blog services like TypePad and is important to watch. This might be a sign of bigger trouble for RSS in China,” wrote Steve Rubel, the author of Micro Persuasion.
RSS and news aggregators, like FeedBurner, Google Reader and Bloglines allow Internet users to subscribe and view content from specified sources. In countries engaged in Internet filtering, RSS aggregators are being used to bypass filters and access content published on blocked websites.
[...] to Global Voices Advocacy, China Telecom has blocked feeds from the popular FeedBurner service. If you use China Telcom in [...]
posted on August 31st, 2007 at 6:42 pm - #2587[...] that said people using China Telecom have been unable to access and read their Feedburner feeds[Source]. According to Global Voices Advocacy, The Moon-Blog discovered the block: Moon-Blog, who has done [...]
posted on September 1st, 2007 at 12:19 pm - #2592[...] feeds (August 27, 2007: Feedburner is feeding 535,003 publishers who’ve burned 913,490 feeds). More on Global Voices Advocacy Share [...]
posted on September 1st, 2007 at 12:56 pm - #2593I am in Zhejiang province. I was able to access it without any problems.
posted on September 4th, 2007 at 8:29 am - #2629I’m in Shanghai. Feedburner is blocked for me =(
posted on September 19th, 2007 at 7:47 pm - #2791[...] the trouble feedburner is supposedly giving to China Telecom users, I thought I’d take the feedburner graphics off [...]
posted on October 6th, 2007 at 11:46 pm - #3143[...] not just once but twice, both times neglecting to point out that Feedburner feeds, blocked for the second time since just this summer, still arrive perfectly well both at mainland readers as well as to [...]
posted on October 9th, 2007 at 12:34 am - #3191Also in Shanghai, and getting nothing for feedburner. Another problem is, there are quite a few bloggers & other expat sites that use feedburner, and have no clue that their feeds are down.
posted on December 7th, 2007 at 1:12 am - #5477I am a podcast host that uses feedburner and we just received a post that someone in China could not retrieve our podcast.
Could someone please test it and let us know. Thank you.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NFLRandR
our Website
http://www.NFLRandR.com
Thanks again.
posted on December 15th, 2007 at 8:46 am - #5835