[Chapter-delegates] blogspot down in India

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Joly, all,

thanks for these last messages on Algeria and possible blocking of 
blogspot.com in India.

Exploring your views: so an ISP says "we are not blocking 
rumored-to-be-blocked.com. Do we have to believe them?

What do they know and how sure are they? They may know that there has not 
been an order to filter a given domain name somewhere in their 
infrastructure.

But are they sure that their antispam or some other low-level, 
automatically triggered blocking is not in effect? That their trusted 
anti-something box/software/service isn't using a third-party RBL which in 
turn does block traffic from that domain? maybe selectively for some ports 
or protocols?

What are your experiences?

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Joly MacFie wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:57:57 -0500
> From: Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com>
> To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] blogspot down in India
> 
> There have been reports of blogspot.com being unavailable in India. It isn't
> clear that it's deliberate and it seems restricted to just a few ISPs.
>
> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/blogspot-blocked-in-india/143127-11.html
>
> *New Delhi:* Blogs with the domain name blogspot.com have been reported as
> inaccessible by users of certain internet service providers (ISPs) in India.
> Though other blogs powered by Google's Blogger service, but having their own
> domain names are accessible. The block seems to be currently limited to only
> a few ISPs, with many users on other ISPs still being able to access
> blogspot.com freely.
> Airtel has denied any blocking on its part. "We have'nt blocked any
> blogspot," the company said in a post though its official Twitter account
> (@Airtel_Presence). Tech blogger Amit Agarwal believes that it "looks more
> like a glitch than a ban."
>
>
>
> and also thread at
>
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=030cd56660b37a16&hl=en
>
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