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.
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I am in Zhejiang province. I was able to access it without any problems.
I’m in Shanghai. Feedburner is blocked for me =(
Also 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.
I 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.
jewellery…
an interesting take on a fun topic….