Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China
This might be affecting the University of Rochester (I’m looking into it):
Trouble with Chinese applicants/customers reaching your web site?
Maybe your DNS server is blocked.
See the excellent summary of the situation from Zittrain and Edelman:
Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China.
Caltech, Columbia, MIT, and U.Virginia are known victims. NorthWestern U
is also affected.
Did this problem increase in November?
See notes in interesting-people
and
Politech.
Interestingly, as of today, only one (Columbia) of the five .edu zones listed above has off-site secondary DNS servers.