Robyn.tech is inaccessible in most parts of China

[MegaWall3]

https://ping.chinaz.com/robyn.tech

[sansyrox]

@IridiumMetal , do you know a fix around it?

[thePromger]

This is updated one, without doing anything i think

[MegaWall3]

yep, I haven't been able to access robyn.tech successfully for about half a year. I used to think it was just a temporary website malfunction, but it still cannot be accessed today. This is really frustrating, as it has affected the ecological development of my favorite framework in China. It wasn't until yesterday that I was forced to use a proxy network to access it successfully, and I realized that this was a regional issue. The results of access tests on ping.chinaz.com have been fluctuating, and I'm not sure about the specific reasons and solutions. Maybe the vercel.app site server is blocked by gfw, or maybe it needs a transit server or cdn service in Hong Kong or Chinese Mainland?

[thePromger]

@sansyrox
I think we should host it on our own servers
Or try to use cloudflare for static site

@IridiumMetal
Is GitHub, cloudflare, digital ocean also blocked there?

[MegaWall3]

https://ping.chinaz.com/vercel.app
https://ping.chinaz.com/github.com
https://ping.chinaz.com/cloudflare.com
https://ping.chinaz.com/digitalocean.com

Digitalocean can be accessed
GitHub is generally inaccessible unless I modify the Windows host file
Cloudflare cannot confirm, the website has been redirected to https://www.cloudflare-cn.com/ However, it seems that the service itself is available

[thePromger]

GitHub is generally inaccessible unless I modify the Windows host file.

Is it ip block by isp or dns request block?
Have you tried using something like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 as dns in your devices, maybe that way it will work
do check it out

[thePromger]

https://ping.chinaz.com/github.com

according to this, github is not blocked by dns at all, just no response in some regions 3-5, else accessible everywhere

[MegaWall3]

Unfortunately, international dns cannot be used in Chinese Mainland, and only local dns such as Alibaba dns can be used.

And for GitHub being accessible for testing on Chinaz, I guess it may be due to the fact that the speed measurement server is in some individual cases of certain communication operators.

The reality is that there are a large number of GitHub host online update services on GitHub to enable GitHub to function properly, such as
github.com/ineo6/hosts
github.com/maxiaof/github-hosts

(Because there are many illegal proxy providers and malicious political content targeting mainland China on GitHub ..)

[MegaWall3]

After my testing, GitHub can be accessed on China Mobile and China Unicom networks, but not on China Telecom, so GitHub is not always available.

[thePromger]

international dns cannot be used in Chinese Mainland, and only local dns such as Alibaba dns can be used

this can become good project where one software can provide dns query resolves and it can fetch those from a temporary list or international dns which works on dns on https