• veloxy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because GitHub has load balances that direct traffic occasionally through a server hosted under Chinese jurisdiction.

    Where the hell did you get that from? Do you have a source for that?

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      1 year ago

      The US government as I work for them. The IP in question is blocked for that reason.

      Edit: Slack was also intermittent a few years back due to the same kind of situation. China owns a decent amount of internet infrastructure. It’s fine for normal traffic as TLS and the like, but the US government doesn’t risk it on their administrative or development networks.