September 10, 2019 at 9:54:52 PM UTC
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On September 10, 2019 at 9:54:52 PM UTC, http://www.atimes.com/ was accessible when tested on AS37148 in Nigeria.

Failures

HTTP Experiment
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DNS Experiment
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Control
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DNS Queries

Resolver:
129.205.112.254
Query:
IN A www.atimes.com
Engine:
Name
Class
TTL
Type
DATA
Answer IP Info
@
IN
TTL
A
96.45.83.27
Unknown AS
@
IN
TTL
A
96.45.82.69
Unknown AS
@
IN
TTL
A
96.45.83.208
Unknown AS
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IN
TTL
A
96.45.82.199
Unknown AS

TCP Connections

96.45.82.199:80: succeeded
96.45.82.69:80: succeeded
96.45.83.27:80: succeeded
96.45.83.208:80: succeeded

HTTP Requests

URL
GET https://www.asiatimes.com/
Response Headers
CDN-Uid:
e33eec60-7997-49d4-993f-71dcb11e19d3
x-amz-id-2:
0Fp85FjKSHf3YAy6mxQyfOTLxBIC9CojOw7OvfprAbW7+8yRHxD/ljLEX9v6le/cp+JaMBNvvnw=
Content-Type:
text/html
Vary:
Accept-Encoding
CDN-PullZone:
49289
Server:
BunnyCDN-ES1-482
Last-Modified:
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 23:34:53 GMT
x-amz-request-id:
E928F2E7C5AD55AD
CDN-EdgeStorageId:
482
Cache-Control:
max-age=600,must-revalidate
Date:
Tue, 10 Sep 2019 23:54:59 GMT
CDN-Cache:
HIT
CDN-RequestId:
e414d1f5dd417ae9c4210e6c712a6f7c
CDN-RequestCountryCode:
NG
CDN-CachedAt:
2019-09-11 01:49:07
Response Body
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text-uppercase">Hong Kong </span></div></div><div class="article-flash-container"><h2 class="article-heading">HK police criticized for targeting journalists</h2><div class="article-two-liner">Photos and videos show nine journalists were pepper-sprayed by officers from the elite 'raptor' squad </div></div><div class="flex-container author"><div class="flexbox"><p class="author-name">By<span><span class="text-uppercase p-r-l-5">Almen Chui</span></span></p></div></div></a></div></div></div></section></div><div class="grid opinion "><section class="section opinion one-third"><div class="heading-row"><h1 class="heading dash text-uppercase">Opinion</h1></div><div class="section-content"><div class="small-opinion"><div class="opinion-block"><a href="/2019/09/opinion/season-for-looking-at-asian-stocks/" target="_self"><div class="flex-container article-flash-container"><div class="flexbox image"><div class="author-photo"><img src="https://static.asiatimes.com/uploads/authors/Igor-Kuchma.png" 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Response Headers
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