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Arabist reports that ikhwan online might be blocked in Egypt.

this is not the first time this happens, and one case went to court, the government never denied the claims, but the sites where unblocked.

I don't know much yet but one big problem with blocking is to prove it happens, I want to collect traceroute data from all egyptian ISPs to confirm and document, please help

Link.net

$ traceroute ikhwanonline.com
traceroute to ikhwanonline.com (216.55.165.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  router (192.168.0.1)  0.414 ms  0.336 ms  0.332 ms
 2  62.135.86.1 (62.135.86.1)  341.498 ms  301.400 ms  379.071 ms
 3  * 172.17.4.149 (172.17.4.149)  615.741 ms  514.956 ms
 4  * 172.17.4.121 (172.17.4.121)  527.554 ms 172.17.4.101 (172.17.4.101)  478.521 ms
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *

TEDATA

$ traceroute ikhwanonline.comh
traceroute to ikhwanonline.com (216.55.165.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2)  2318.464 ms 2106.694 ms  1751.718 ms
 2  host-163.121.151.24.tedata.net (163.121.151.24)  1815.486 ms  2401.879 ms  1494.771 ms
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *

traceroute to ikhwanonline.com (216.55.165.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1)  1.081 ms  1.537 ms  1.016 ms
 2  host-81.10.17.93.tedata.net (81.10.17.93)  1.169 ms  1.173 ms  1.069 ms
 3  MAADI2R001 (163.121.138.8)  66.645 ms 199.630 ms  447.660 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *

Internet Egypt

# traceroute ikhwanonline.com
traceroute to ikhwanonline.com (216.55.165.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  192.168.16.205 (192.168.16.205)  28.472 ms  29.116 ms  81.124 ms
 3  194.79.108.35 (194.79.108.35)  38.045 ms  30.992 ms  79.579 ms
 4  62.193.104.121 (62.193.104.121)  38.068 ms 194.79.101.29 (194.79.101.29)  42.572 ms  37.536 ms
 5  * * *
 6  * * *

this is exactly the same pattern I observed last time, the blocking is on the IP level (its not a webproxy) and ISPs are directly involved.

we need to find out which government agency is behind the blocking, how they work with ISPs and what are the legal tools employed here, we also need to think about an effective stratege to combat this in court.

will try to publish more info about the previous case I'm abit out of touch now.