{"id":1458,"date":"2020-06-07T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1458"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:29:37","slug":"my-cloudflare-site-appears-to-be-blocked-by-the-great-firewall-of-china","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/my-cloudflare-site-appears-to-be-blocked-by-the-great-firewall-of-china","title":{"rendered":"My Cloudflare site appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEaZV2JTeAPA8GEpFypLbGksj5VhR6PoZ-mw&amp;s\" alt=\"blocked by the Great Firewall of China\" width=\"586\" height=\"266\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>My Cloudflare site appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China. What should I do?<\/h3>\n<p>In order to confirm that there are issues with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPs<\/a> you\u2019re on in China, we need:<\/p>\n<p>1. A\u00a0traceroute to the domain to\u00a0see the network path. The site may not actually be blocked in China, but could be a ISP issue or other, so we need to see if it is timing out early in the network path.<\/p>\n<p>2. The results from a\u00a0Great Firewall Checker.<\/p>\n<p>3. A nslookup of the domain.Use the command nslookup yoursitename.com (replace your actual site where yoursitename.com is).<\/p>\n<p>4. The type of content on your site. China does censor certain kinds of content, including pornography, gambling and certain political talk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For additional step-by-step guidance or clarification, you can refer to our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/\"> comprehensive guide<\/a> for more help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Cloudflare site appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China. What should I do? In order to confirm that there are issues with IPs you\u2019re on in China, we need: 1. A\u00a0traceroute to the domain to\u00a0see the network path. The site may not actually be blocked in China, but could be a ISP issue or other, so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1478,1124,1479],"class_list":["post-1458","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-block","kbtag-cloudflare","kbtag-great-firewall-of-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1458\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}