I live in Vietnam and have no problem uploading data from my personal location. But I have an AWS server located in Hong Kong I use for power monitoring / IoT devices and tried to use that to upload data to PVOutput but it fails. Doing a ping, the URL resolves to an IP address, fails and then doing a traceroute it gets to a TATA America router, tries to pass on to the next hop and then just goes to a black hole. Pinging any other website completes with no errors. This has been going on for two weeks or so since I created my account, so not a temporary problem and not sure how to get around it. I don’t run anything 24hrs at home and use the AWS server for everything else with no problems. Not sure if there is some blacklist for Hong Kong / China IPs or it’s a routing error in TATA’s network or the handoff network. I don’t want to set up a VPN or proxy either. Anyone have any ideas or if there is a blacklist for Hong Kong IPs I can give you my static IP I have had for 8 years now and if that can be added to a whitelist it would be much appreciated.
I deal with plenty of geolocated blocked website being in Vietnam, but this is a first for my server in HK.
Here is the output of the traceroute.
(I had to edit the URLs and IP to avoid linking errors while posting.
traceroute to pvoutput org (45 56.66.169), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 242 10.133.5 (242 10.133.5) 1.648 ms 242 10.132.129 (242 10.132.129) 1.589 ms 242 10.132.131 (242 10.132.131) 0.692 ms
2 240 3.196.0 (240 3.196.0) 1.282 ms 1.796 ms 2.321 ms
3 * * ix-be-14.ecore1.hk2-hongkong.as6453 net (180.87.169.4) 0.989 ms
4 * * *
5 if-ae-28-2.tcore2.tv2-tokyo.as6453 net (180 87.181.75) 192.030 ms 193.301 ms 193.285 ms
6 * * *
7 if-ae-2-2.tcore2.av3-toyohashi.as6453 net (180 87.3.131) 195.898 ms * if-ae-2-4.tcore2.av3-toyohashi.as6453 net (180 87.149.1) 195.331 ms
8 * * if-ae-2-4.tcore2.av3-toyohashi.as6453 net (180 87.149.1) 192.154 ms
9 * if-bundle-28-2.qcore1.lvw-losangeles.as6453 net (64 86.252.32) 198.196 ms *
10 * 207 45.216.179 (207 45.216.179) 194.756 ms * (resolves to TATA Networks America)
11 * * *
…
60 ***
MTR log
sudo mtr --report --report-cycles=100 45.56.66.169
Start: 2026-09-07T13:14:04+0700
HOST: ip-172-31-13-255 Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 242 10.133.1 0.0% 100 1.2 3.0 0.7 74.4 8.7
2.|-- 240 3.196.0 0.0% 100 1.3 1.4 1.2 2.8 0.2
3.|-- ix-be-14.ecore1.hk2-hongk 50.0% 100 1.2 1.5 1.0 19.2 2.6
4.|-- if-bundle-8-2.qcore1.hk2- 80.0% 100 195.0 195.3 194.8 195.9 0.3
5.|-- if-ae-28-2.tcore2.tv2-tok 0.0% 100 193.5 194.0 193.3 213.6 2.6
6.|-- if-bundle-56-2.qcore2.tv2 90.0% 100 193.9 193.7 193.1 194.1 0.4
7.|-- if-ae-58-2.tcore1.av3-toy 0.0% 100 193.0 193.4 192.9 211.5 2.1
8.|-- if-ae-2-2.tcore2.av3-toyo 99.0% 100 193.4 193.4 193.4 193.4 0.0
9.|-- if-bundle-28-2.qcore1.lvw 85.0% 100 195.0 194.8 194.2 195.3 0.4
10.|-- 207 45.216.179 60.0% 100 192.6 192.4 192.0 193.0 0.4
11.|-- ??? 100.0 100 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Thanks,
Ian