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http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker
Please note that if you have any trouble reaching the site just try
again a little later. Service outages have been kept to an absolute
minimum.
This will not affect the delivery of the newsletter or courses.
Bestnet is at present under cyber attack for hosting a mirror site
of the Falundafa/gong site. This sect was banned by the Government
of China and the attacks appear to be coming from sources inside of
China.
Even though these Denial of Service attacks affect the CSS Internet
News site, along with 5,000 others hosted by this service I fully
support Bestnet's effort.
The Government of China may use intimidation to rule inside it's own
borders but I'll be damned if they will get away with it here.
John Walker
Publisher
CSS Internet News
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Canadian ISP's Under Attack in Internet War (Canada/China)
Hamilton, Ontario Internet service provider experiences Denial of
Service attacks after hosting Falundafa site.
by John Walker
CSS Internet News
http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker
Tuesday, 27 July 99
The Falundafa site was transferred to Bestnet Internet Inc late last
night after another Canadian ISP which had been hosting the site
could no longer cope with the continual attacks.
Eric Weigel, Director of Bestnet Internet Inc. said in an interview
today that the site was up at Bestnet by about 10:00 P.M. EST last
night and the Denial of Service attacks began within an hour.
Bestnet is one of several ISP's mirroring the sect's site after it
was banned by the Government of China.
System logs show attacks originating from The Information Service
Center of XinAn, Beijing, China, and other locations in China.
One ISP reports that "It is not just my machine under attack it is
many machines from all over the US and Canada many of which are .edu
(educational) sites."
Mr. Weigel says "Bestnet will attempt to continue hosting the site in
spite of attacks from individuals or governments. That's what we do."
A regime that attempts to stifle free speech on the 'Net is bound to
fail. A site that is banned in one country can be mirrored on
hundreds of servers all over the world in just hours.
This is one of the great strengths of the Internet.
Links:
Falundafa
http://www.falundafa.ca
Bestnet Internet Inc.
http://www.bestnet.org
Asia Pacific Information Center
http://www.apnic.net/db
Eric Wiegel, Director Bestnet Internet Inc.
ericw@bestnet.org
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