Hi,

I usually use skritter.cn here in China as it's more reliable, but recently it's started playing up. I can currently get to the main page but as soon as I try to go to study, vocab lists, forum etc it fails to load and I get a 'webpage is unavailable' notification. I'm currently connected through VPN to the normal site. Is it just me with this problem?

Any help would be great.

Cheers,

Will

I've just tried the .com domain without a VPN and I get the same result. Seems like the they're both being filtered by the firewalls here in the same way?

I'm having the same problem here in Beijing, both at home and at work. Been this way for a few days, where I can load the main page fine but if I then try to load another page it fails (although sometimes even the main page fails to load). If I wait about a minute I can refresh the page and it'll load.

I don't know if it's related, but I noticed that the page tries to load data from errorception.com, which seems to not work in China without a VPN.

Let me try turning errorception off to see if that improves access in China. Any better?

It's still trying to load data from errorception (and the pages still fail to load). Do I need to flush my DNS cache or something?

How about now?

Hi, I've just tried and am still having the same issues.

Currently working alright for me, but I'll have to use it a bit more to be sure the problem has disappeared since it was kind of intermittent before.

Nope, the problem is still there.

If the GFW is getting skritter.cn now and it's not some external domain you see not loading properly but rather resources from skritter.cn itself, then there's not much we can do, I'm afraid, but hope for the GFW to lighten up on us. Can you tell if, when it seems down, you can access simple static resources like http://www.skritter.cn/css/combined.css ?

I'm afraid I can't access that link either.

Surely if this is a GFW problem there should be more people experiencing it?

regarding stuart's point, am also having 10-20% page opening failure on .cn in china (does not seem to be a specific time when not available, can try to open two and one opens) - imagine there are many of us lurking with the same problem.

.com does not show an opening failure for me (as williambarrow mentioned above), but a skritter page asking me to use .cn.

Could it be your ISP? I am using .cn daily and have no problems at all. I had a another ISP before and then I had from time to time problems. If I do a traceroute I had a lot of latency in the providers network. There have been an increase in trafic listening in China lately and that do add latency

Mandarinboy, what's your ISP? I'm with China Unicom in Beijing.

I am using China Telecom from Shanghai. Surprisingly stable and usually working great.