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Northern China talks to Southern China through Japan, to the extent that they talk at all. All of China at first had one state telecom monopoly, but then some
by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Northern China talks to Southern China through Japan, to the extent that they talk at all. All of China at first had one state telecom monopoly, but then some party official set his son up with Northern China. What was left of the state monopoly won't route to it.
My take on what to do about that is to set up servers in both north and south that have website mirrors, as well as a geographically-sensitive nameserver. I don't have a clue how to do the GeoDNS but surely it is a solved problem as big sites require it for load balancing.
- scurvy 11y agoChina Telecom also has a separate AS dedicated to high party officials, VIP's, etc. It still goes through GFW, but it goes through a dedicated, higher performant GFW.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoThe US Government, at least at one time had something called FTS, for the federal telecommunications system. It was a private phone system for Uncle Sam.