[tor-bugs] #25137 [Obfuscation/Censorship analysis]: Tor blocked in UAE

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#25137: Tor blocked in UAE
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 Reporter:  mwolfe                           |          Owner:  dcf
     Type:  defect                           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                           |      Milestone:
Component:  Obfuscation/Censorship analysis  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  censorship block ae              |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by dcf):

 Replying to [comment:1 mwolfe]:
 > After 3 hours, Tor now opens in the UAE without a VPN. I still need meek
 to connect to any websites, but the problem of the network consensus not
 loading has gone away.

 This is strange--if you are able to download the network consensus, then
 you should also be able to connect to websites through Tor. (Unless there
 is some very unusual traffic pattern–based blocking, but that is
 unlikely.) I wonder if this was not actually blocking, but some temporary
 network error, or perhaps slowness caused by the
 [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-
 project/2017-December/001604.html ongoing DDoS attack]?

 mwolfe, if you don't mind saying, what is your ISP?
 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_service_providers_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates
 According to Wikipedia], there are only 2: Etisalat and du.)

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