Pointing to cloudflare dns circumvents the issue for now. move away from ISP DNS to 1.1.1.1 to temporarily solve the issue.
cloudfare + OpenDNS .
works like a charm
Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#152Is there any guesses as to why it’s blocked? What’s Microsoft’s reaction?
its actually not blocked, it works just fine for most ISPs here
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> updates across your integrations That's already vendor lock in - you're using GitHub's CI pipeline? You're locked.
If I have to update my Jenkins server because I moved from one Git provider to another, I have to point my existing integrations to my new git provider. That's the opposite of being locked in, and just a fact of the matter.
That sounds like it's your Jenkins server not GitHub's.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're assuming that even if the method of bypassing it is widely available everyone can figure it out or has access to help
Bypassing authoritarian control measures isn't mutually exclusive with social activism. Your entire premise was false to begin with.
Again, it can be exclusive. People who are able to bypass the restriction might not feel the need to fight it
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
> OP claims it's SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything. All the apps listed do get past most rudimentary SNI-based blocks, incl GoodbyeDPI which is pretty sophisticated. One still needs DoH because (unencrypted) DNS is the weakest link.
Then that's not SNI-based blocking.
Simple SNI-based blocking implementation may not consider complex data like fragmented packet, so some solutions work.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Much hostility. You know this will cause more emigration right?
Wow, I guess some right-wing anti-immigration lunatics flagged my other comment. But I will repeat it, emigration from India is a very good thing.
I actually don't care about it but how would that be a good thing?
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't that mean that places like AWS will be fighting ECH, then? Right now, evil governments can block sites based on their domain; so if irrelevant-aws-customer.com does something controversial, super-important-customer-also-on-aws.com can still receive traffic. If evil governments lose this ability and irrelevant-aws-customer.com needs to be blocked, then they just block all of AWS, forcing super-important-custom…
> to move to Azure or GCP Who will also be blocked following the same logic.
Not if Azure or GCP never allow ESNI (in this imagined scenario).
Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#158Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#159Indian here. This seems to be blown a bit out of proportion. I am residing in a Tier-1 city in India and have an internet connection with a local ISP. I am able to access the content on the supposed blocked domain, so this is probably one ISP proactively blocking the domain without it being formally asked to do so (court order can't be ISP-specific AFAIK). I work in a large consultancy firm and have friends in other…
I did mention that it's only ACT blocking it so far. > one ISP proactively blocking the domain without it being formally asked to do so Very unlikely. Court orders are not ISP specific, but ISPs are not time-bound to apply them. It's all very secretive, so there's really no way for us to find out. It's better to assume the worst (ACT is blocking it on a court-order, and more ISPs might follow). Other ISPs are known t…
ACT broadband user here, never had any issues with GitHub being blocked at all. It might be a localised issue to a certain city.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bypassing authoritarian control measures isn't mutually exclusive with social activism. Your entire premise was false to begin with.
Again, it can be exclusive. People who are able to bypass the restriction might not feel the need to fight it
Why do you feel the need to keep inventing false premises? You literally have no point here.