China is blocking access to Google's popular Gmail service, according to data from Google and analysis from Dyn Research.
Traffic has dropped to nearly zero, per Google's transparency reports, which provides real-time information about usage of its services. Dyn Research, an Internet analysis firm, said it confirmed that an "IP-level" block of Gmail had occurred.
"China has a number of ways they can block content. One of the crudest ways is to just block an IP address, and when you do that, you block all the content available at the IP," Earl Zmijewski, Dyn's vice-president of data analytics, told Mashable.