am no expert on dns... but would indian users have been able to access the blogs if they had switched their dns settings to those of an accessible dns server outside the country? (provided of course the ip address was not being blocked...)
> i'm not sure what ISPAI means by problems blocking using DNS. ISPAI DNS > needn't propagate upwards, so why should there be the risk of overseas DNS > blocking indian DNS systems? > > otoh, DNS redirection is not an effective means of blocking blogs. two > examples from the list of banned blogs [1] are pajamaeditors.blogspot.com > and exposingtheleft.blogspot.com. the only way to REALLY block these is to > block the ip address, which is currently the same (blogspot.blogger.com > [66.102.15.101]). that is presumably what was done, which is why all ov > blogspot was blocked. >
