Indian ISP's Block Blogs
I assumed it was another one of blogspot.com's downtimes tonight,until I saw Rediff.com's RSS feed "Are ISP"S Blocking Blogs?".Turns out that indeed they are!
Apparently,it seems the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) , an Indian Govt body , has sent a 22 page list of sites to be blocked to ISP's & this has resulted in the blocking of blogs hosted on blogspot, typepad & even Geocities among others.
While I had noticed none of the pages hosted on geocities [ including geocities.com] were accessible for the last 15 days,It never occured to me that they were actually being blocked - Why would Geocities be blocked?
I called up the Airtel customer care & they did acknowledge that blogspot pages were blocked but couldnt comment further.As for geocities,seems like they didnt know it & asked me to run tracert,ping etc and check.
They said they would check at their server end and revert back to me....
But here's the funny part - bloggers can still post to blogspot since the posting page is @blogger.com. However the blog itself hosted on blogspot.com cannot be seen :p
Apparently,it seems the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) , an Indian Govt body , has sent a 22 page list of sites to be blocked to ISP's & this has resulted in the blocking of blogs hosted on blogspot, typepad & even Geocities among others.
While I had noticed none of the pages hosted on geocities [ including geocities.com] were accessible for the last 15 days,It never occured to me that they were actually being blocked - Why would Geocities be blocked?
I called up the Airtel customer care & they did acknowledge that blogspot pages were blocked but couldnt comment further.As for geocities,seems like they didnt know it & asked me to run tracert,ping etc and check.
They said they would check at their server end and revert back to me....
But here's the funny part - bloggers can still post to blogspot since the posting page is @blogger.com. However the blog itself hosted on blogspot.com cannot be seen :p
Labels: Tech
posted by in2mind at 11:25 PM
1 Comments:
Are we in China or something? Whatever happened to democratic and free institutions? Has the govt become so autorcatic to block entire web-services? We should certainly not take this lying on our back.
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