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Who control Google Cloud platform filtering?


Is it Google or the client of Google Cloud can control the firewall and block IP's ?

Because in my country we can't access Khan Academy website as example, we got "error 403 forbidden".

So, who control Google Cloud platform filtering ?

See the screen shot :

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Solution

  • Suggest doing routing checks eg from a linux based machine terminal (or mac with these tools installed using brew):

    mtr khanacademy.org
    

    which at the last hop is blocked by their router for ICMP - giving '?' (ask to unblock temporarily) but goes to 205.251.244.195 as the network point prior to this.

    Also do a whois:

    whois khanacademy.org
    

    giving a postal code 94042 which is Mountain View CA - I think the same as Google.

    Unexpected, though they do hosting is that

    whois 205.251.244.195
    

    shows to be Amazon