Godaddy, issues with Great Firewall of china, help.

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by chris07, Mar 25, 2008.

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    Ok here is an issue

    I have a site I hosted for a company here in Canada on the godaddy Servers. Unfortunatly In china where one of their branches are, they cant view the website because it is being blocked by china's firewall.


    Right now they have a dummy sub domain set up for arguments sake 167.221.44.1:8080/website/index.html

    A) is there a simple way to make the godaddy servers re direct citizens from china to go to "167.221.44.1:8080/website/index.html" when they type in the normal www.mysite.com.

    B) any other ways?
     
    chris07, Mar 25, 2008 IP
  2. boltok

    boltok Active Member

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    You'll need a proxy or something in between that does the redirect. DNS can only resolve to an IP address. It can't specify a port or any other extended parameters for a hostname.
     
    boltok, Mar 25, 2008 IP
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    blowingideas Peon

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    Yep, look for a proxy. That issue is not just with godaddy, it applies to every hosting provider. Blame it on China.
     
    blowingideas, Mar 26, 2008 IP