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Yes, absolutely, China has blocked access to MSU content. When I worked at MSU and was involved with MSU Web content, my superiors didn't want us to talk about it, but China does block MSU Web content from time to time, really in a random, crude way based on what their censors observe. Their blocking is crude, so they may block all of msu.edu, or a huge subdomain. The only answer I heard years ago was to wait for them to remove the blockages. So far as I know, eventually, they did. As I recall, MSU had a new program for online studies from China to EL, as I recall in Nursing, and we didn't want to upset China by complaining that they were blocking access to www.msu.edu. Not MSU's shining moment for free speech.
MSU has thousands of Chinese students on campus, and some number of online students from China. MSU also has students and scholars in mainland China. So MSU has to dance carefully as to answering your question.
I'll look for what we found several years ago about China blocking MSU Web content.
/rich
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Oscar Castaneda
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I have a web application that is mash up of a few components coming from three web servers, all of them here in my shop in Manly Miles. Two of those web servers are running Windows 2003 and IIS. The third one runs Windows 2008 and IIS. The apps had been running for a while, I wasn't aware of any issues.
Recently I had some people from our group going to China. They wanted to demo the application. It turns out that everything coming from the 2008 server does not show up in the browser in China.
One of those days last week, I was seating in the phone with my colleague (he in China, me at Manly Miles). I could see and browse the content that comes from the 2008 server. He could not, at the same time.
Seems to be a really bizarre behavior.
Of course, as a first matter I will look into my applications and see if I did something wrong. However other questions come to my mind and this is where I most would appreciate comments:
1. Any previous experience of content being blocked from China?
2. Any experience on this type of differences in between 2003 and 2008?
3. Are there any security settings on 2008 that might explain this behavior?
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Oscar Castaņeda
Global Observatory for Ecosystem Services
Michigan State University
