[Wikimediaindia-l] BSNL DNS Blocking Wikipedia?

2012-01-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, Yannf posted this on IRC (#wikimedia-in) when I was away, == in my new DSL connection with BSNL, *.wikipedia.org is blocked any idea? I get a page of advertising about web hosting http://commons.wikimedia.org works == My guess is BSNL DNS is playing some game here (IIRC they have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] BSNL DNS Blocking Wikipedia?

2012-01-28 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Do keep in mind that BSNL is a government-backed entity. It's parent ministry is the one which proposed screening of content. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is likely a temporary issue, and I suspect that the security of the BSNL servers

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] BSNL DNS Blocking Wikipedia?

2012-01-28 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, It seems that the DNS server of BSNL was hacked. It looks strange that only Wikipedia was affected. The issue is fixed now. Regards, Yann 2012/1/28 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com: I think this is likely a temporary issue, and I suspect that the security of the BSNL servers may