Punched holes in the great firewall?

Punched holes in the great firewall?

I am in Shanghai right now and I was surprised that I could access the forbidden fruits, e.g. m.facebook.com:

 1  172.31.24.1 (172.31.24.1)  1.359 ms  1.079 ms  1.049 ms
 2  180.168.46.17 (180.168.46.17)  1.262 ms  1.180 ms  1.073 ms
 3  10.10.96.145 (10.10.96.145)  29.356 ms  29.781 ms  29.607 ms
 4  10.10.199.179 (10.10.199.179)  40.466 ms  40.220 ms  40.559 ms
 5  203.131.250.221 (203.131.250.221)  40.208 ms  40.581 ms  40.139 ms
 6  ae-0.facebook.chwahk02.hk.bb.gin.ntt.net (203.131.241.62)  41.732 ms  46.681 ms  42.098 ms
 7  psw01a.hkg3.tfbnw.net (173.252.64.176)  42.154 ms
    psw01b.hkg3.tfbnw.net (173.252.64.175)  42.104 ms
    psw01c.hkg3.tfbnw.net (173.252.64.174)  40.703 ms
 8  msw1ad.01.hkg3.tfbnw.net (204.15.21.235)  41.912 ms
    msw1ab.01.hkg3.tfbnw.net (204.15.21.247)  41.140 ms
    msw1as.01.hkg3.tfbnw.net (173.252.65.92)  40.938 ms

 9  edge-star-mini-shv-01-hkg3.facebook.com (31.13.95.36)  42.862 ms  41.607 ms  41.950 ms
So this first goes to an ISP in Shanghai? Then back into a private network and re-surfacing in Hong Kong and then having access to the forbidden fruit? Is that normal routing?
Comments are closed.