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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by tptacek »

pritambaral wrote: post #127
sairamkunala wrote: post #109

Pointing to cloudflare dns circumvents the issue for now. move away from ISP DNS to 1.1.1.1 to temporarily solve the issue.

Some ISPs still tamper with DNS traffic irrespective of which DNS server they're to/from. githubusercontent.com has no DNSSEC, so it's not tamperproof.

It wouldn't be tamperproof even with DNSSEC for most of that ISP's customers, because DNSSEC is server-to-server, and collapses down to a single "yep, we checked DNSSEC" bit in the response header. This is a big part of why nobody does DNSSEC, and why the browsers adopted DNS-over-HTTP to solve this particular problem.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by captn3m0 »

shdjzkkanksnd wrote: post #159
captn3m0 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

reports on twitter have the block confirmed across 3 states.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by captn3m0 »

ooni wrote: post #132

The Open Observatory of Network Interference project monitors the Internet to detect censorship - https://ooni.org We are a no-profit and network measurements are provided by volunteers. You can browse our data regarding raw.githubusercontent.com on: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=IN&test_name=we... https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=IN&test_name=we...

Thanks for sharing this, clearly shows ACT DNS blocks.

There's DNS tampering on Jio as well: https://explorer.ooni.org/measurement/20230103T215427Z_webco...

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by captn3m0 »

ummonk wrote: post #130
yunohn wrote: post #28

The insane irony of this given the sheer number of Indians working in software/IT and using GitHub and contributing to India’s GDP. You’d think that the Gov/ISP/Courts, somebody would put GitHub on a Do-Not-Block list and stop this madness.

Most Indian government bureaucrats won't understand tech. Court judges are even worse; not only will they not understand tech, but as unelected officials they don't even particularly care about the economy, and are accountable to no one but themselves.

My favorite instance is the Delhi High Court ordering all registrars in India to stop selling domain names with the string amul in them[0]

> Domain registrars restricted from selling or offering Amul suffixed, prefixed or combination name websites as per the court order are Freenom, Name Cheap, Big Rock and GoDaddy.

Clearly, scammers in India can't figure out how to buy domain names outside india.

[0]: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/delhi-hc-blocks-a...

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by FlyingSnake »

bbbbb5 wrote: post #54

[flagged]

As much as I like questioning the government, let's please keep partisan politics out of HN. It gets tiring to read the same tropes again and again.

Indian government has a long documented history of banning things without much thought and it looks one such case. I hope it gets resolved soon as other users are reporting that they can access it fine.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by girishso »

hectorm wrote: post #72

Can anyone from India confirm if this proxy server [1] is enough to bypass the block? Basically it is a proxy that alters HTTPS traffic to prevent DPI systems from detecting the domain during the TLS handshake. At least in Spain it works for me to bypass the blocking of the major ISPs [2]. [1] https://github.com/hectorm/demergi [2] https://github.com/hectorm/demergi/blob/master/ISP.md

demergi works great to open blocked sites

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by burhanuday »

zakember wrote: post #85

Indian 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…

Can confirm. Facing the same issue on jio fiber in mumbai. Can't open raw GitHub links at all. Get a timeout error

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by jhoelzel »

philippejara wrote: post #120
alkonaut wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The code you need to read, the bugs you need to file and the downloads you need to make from every other project will still be on GitHub. I don’t use GitHub for issues or version control at work, but I’d be significantly slowed down without it.

All those things can be painlessly done with a vpn. I'm not saying people wouldn't have to change, but to affect the economy as gp is trying to make it sound well, doubt it would even make a rounding error.

because you are assuming that everybody immidiatly knows how to set up one of those.

Imagine how many juniors cant, and imagine how many of those might life in india.

And even if you ignore that fact, can you imagine the hit the gdp will take if thousands of companies need to setup vpns?

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by sanghi_mama »

jhoelzel wrote: post #2

uff. I cant even imagine what loosing github would mean to an economy and hope you will be back on track soon.

It won't do anything to the economy. It's only social media and whatsapp that's required by you-know-which-majority-religion terrorist accounts to spread venom and hate speech against other communities. source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61090363
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