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Check if you are behind a transparent proxy · Sajal Kayan

Many Asian ISPs do not provide clean internet. They route all HTTP sessions thru a transparent proxy. Here is a simple way to check if you are behind one.
sajal@sajal-laptop:~$ ping -c 4 www.cdnplanet.com
PING www.cdnplanet.com (107.20.181.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ec2-107-20-181-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com (107.20.181.99): icmp_req=1 ttl=42 time=314 ms
64 bytes from ec2-107-20-181-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com (107.20.181.99): icmp_req=2 ttl=42 time=313 ms
64 bytes from ec2-107-20-181-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com (107.20.181.99): icmp_req=3 ttl=42 time=312 ms
64 bytes from ec2-107-20-181-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com (107.20.181.99): icmp_req=4 ttl=42 time=312 ms

--- www.cdnplanet.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 312.195/313.229/314.137/0.889 ms
sajal@sajal-laptop:~$ ab http://www.cdnplanet.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking www.cdnplanet.com (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        www.cdnplanet.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        13084 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   0.944 seconds
Complete requests:      1
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      13296 bytes
HTML transferred:       13084 bytes
Requests per second:    1.06 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       943.539 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       943.539 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          13.76 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       21   21   0.0     21      21
Processing:   922  922   0.0    922     922
Waiting:      611  611   0.0    611     611
Total:        944  944   0.0    944     944
sajal@sajal-laptop:~$ 

My ping time to CDN Planet is 312ms, but the connection was established in just 21ms !!!!11!!1 Reasons for doing so involve : Censorship, big brother snooping, caching, hijacking users sessions , and probably more ...