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April 20, 2021 at 11:13:59 AM UTC
VERIFY
OK
http://www.umc.org/
Myanmar (Burma)
AS138168 MyanmarAPN Company Limited
Websites
Websites
Web Connectivity Test 
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On April 20, 2021 at 11:13:59 AM UTC, http://www.umc.org/ was accessible when tested on AS138168 in Myanmar (Burma).

Failures

HTTP Experiment
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DNS Experiment
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Control
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DNS Queries

Resolver:
172.253.211.15
Query:
IN A www.umc.org
Engine:
system
Name
Class
TTL
Type
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Answer IP Info
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IN
A
104.22.12.112
AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.)
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IN
A
172.67.30.161
AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.)
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IN
A
104.22.13.112
AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.)

TCP Connections

104.22.13.112:80: succeeded
172.67.30.161:80: succeeded
104.22.12.112:80: succeeded

HTTP Requests

URL
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Date:
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Pragma:
no-cache
Server:
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Vary:
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