A Frustrating Afternoon
Translated from Chinese by Claude. Read the original
This morning I got up pretty early for me, at 9:30, because I went to bed early last night. Then I rushed off to the exit-entry hall at the Public Security Bureau to apply for a passport.Sigh, getting a passport this early, I really had no choice. My school doesn’t give me a student ID, so the only way to take the TOEFL is with a passport. Sad, just sad. Still, it’s good to get it done early, it’ll make things a little easier later… In the afternoon, well, more like around noon, things got even more frustrating. This site got hijacked and redirected for no reason to 61.132.255.212. Ha, this is Anhui Telecom’s handiwork. It was hijacked for a full 5 hours and I couldn’t log in. Ha. Then I bothered customer support and asked what was going on, and the answer was that it loaded fine on their end. Well, uh~~~ Telecom really is brilliant! Here are some ways to deal with this situation: Method 1: Edit your computer’s routing table. Note: the routing table, not the hosts file, because Telecom’s ad injection no longer relies only on DNS hijacking. The command to permanently change the routing table on Windows: “Accessories” - “cmd”, which needs to be run as administrator. Then enter the following route -p add 61.132.255.212 mask 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 route -p add 61.132.221.146 mask 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 Method 2: Edit the routing table on your ADSL modem. I recommend this one. You do it once and you’re done, and it’s especially good if more than one computer in your home goes online. The Telecom-provided ADSL modem at my house is a fairly old model. For how to log in to the ADSL modem, see one of my earlier posts. Click “Advanced Settings” –> “Routing Settings” –> “Static Routes” in order, then in the main window on the right, click the “Add” button to add a route. IP address: the IP you want to block, e.g. 61.132.255.212 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.255 Gateway IP address: 127.0.0.1 Be sure to save once you’ve edited the routing table, and the settings only take effect after you restart the ADSL modem! The methods are partly reposted from the blog of Zhuzaixiao