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

[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 may have been compromised.  Yann is of the same
 opinion.  If the issue persists for a longer-term, then we can pursue it
 with the ISP.

 anirudh

 On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan 
 srik@gmail.comwrote:

 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 local DNS
 for each telecom circle). As for the geekish users, they would know to use
 opendns, ways to access *.wikipedia.org etc. But this needs to be looked
 at seriously. This is not the first time am hearing something like this on
 BSNL DNS. If we identify the problem, can the chapter / programs do
 necessary running around for the issue and ensure this doesn't exist?

 --
 Regards
 Srikanth.L

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

[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 have been compromised.  Yann is of the same opinion.
  If the issue persists for a longer-term, then we can pursue it with the
 ISP.

 anirudh

 On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com
 wrote:

 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 local DNS
 for each telecom circle). As for the geekish users, they would know to use
 opendns, ways to access *.wikipedia.org etc. But this needs to be looked at
 seriously. This is not the first time am hearing something like this on BSNL
 DNS. If we identify the problem, can the chapter / programs do necessary
 running around for the issue and ensure this doesn't exist?

 --
 Regards
 Srikanth.L

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