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Re:Ask HN: Is Google Compute down? by tinus_hn on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:06PM (#18436829)
You don’t need to cut the internet in half to limit China to routing IP adresses that are allocated to China.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google Compute down? by QML on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:23PM (#18436938)
IIRC, Google can try to dictate a BGP policy that says not to accept any routes that goes through China. However, without any verification checks (via cryptography), an entity can lie about the path that they are advertising.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google Compute down? by tinus_hn on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:13AM (#18439687)
No, the peers just outside of China can choose to reject advertisements of Google by China. Google can’t do much.
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