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Republicans Blocking International Access to Official Sites Performance
The Republican Party appears to again be blocking Internet users from outside the United States from visiting its official web sites, with http://www.gop.com, http://www.rnc.org and http://www.GeorgeWBush.com all dropping traffic that originates outside North America. The timing and implementation of the blocking - which is now being provided through the political party's own web host rather than Akamai - suggests an ongoing interest in traffic filtering unrelated to the recent election.
The sites are all hosted by the Republican National Committee, the official site of America's governing party, which currently controls the Senate and House of Representatives as well as the White House. The blocking expands a practice implemented on the GeorgeWBush.com domain during the final week of the U.S. presidential campaign, when the Bush campaign site used Akamai's content management service to manage incoming traffic, citing security concerns.
On Nov. 24, the GeorgeWBush.com site stopped using Akamai and began having its domain name server (DNS) requests handled by the RNC's server, and redirecting traffic to the RNC's main site, gop.com. The RNC now appears to possess the capability to implement geographic blocking similar to the services Akamai provided for GeorgeWBush.com. Since Nov. 26, the rnc.org, gop.com and GeorgeWBush.com domains all show an identical pattern of failed requests from stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney, while Netcraft's four U.S. monitoring stations show no performance problems.
Hmnnn iz this hpocrosy in terms of what they say about the China's Great Firewall?
I wonder what they are afraid of!!!!!!!!!!
