GFW

Lots of favicon.ico requests from Mainland China

Tagged: Code, error, GFW, log, nginx, scanner, spam

I check the Nginx error log file regularly. I noticed that a lot of attempted accesses to favicon.ico coming from mainland China. They come from different IP addresses and with different User Agents. Each of these IPs is only doing this, sometimes repeatedly. They are just waste my server’s timeContinue Reading

Chinese Hi-Tech protect net on top of the mainland China

In: Independent Thinking

Tagged: China, Firefox, GFW, internet

It is so powerful that anybody is affected by it in mainland China. Sometimes we call it GFW – Great Firewall. Sometimes we call it Chinese Lan. Here is the comparison made by the special Firefox addon. China Channel Screencast from fi5e on Vimeo. Just watch the video, you willContinue Reading