India Blocks: Mass blocking of web services by Indian Government

[Sushubh]

Vadiya hai.

 

[Jack Tripper]

Is there a list of the blocked sites available?

 

[rj27]

It's a Dns level block easily passable by changing DNS but that's not the point. These nuts who don't even know the internet beyond google,youtube and gmail just passes the orders as these media houses asks them to (everyone loves warm pockets). This is like as if some body part got ill so just kill the whole thing, easier than treating part by part :mad ():

But they fail to understand that if someone was smart enough to find the source on these filesharing sites in the first place, he would surely be able to find the alternative soon enough.

 

[sTrOnTiaBOnd]

Airtel just said that as per court directions about 450 sites have been blocked from midnight yesterday (July 3, 2014).
Luckyshare, Bitshare, Terafile stopped working from today morning.

Can you ask them which was the court and case number?

I knew this was supposed to happen. My spidey sense was tingling as i was surprised that half a year has gone by and there has been no internet censorship!

 

[amish]

... my spidey sense! ...

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[Jack Tripper]

It's a Dns level block easily passable by changing DNS but that's not the point. These nuts who don't even know the internet beyond google,youtube and gmail just passes the orders as these media houses asks them to (everyone loves warm pockets). This is like as if some body part got ill so just kill the whole thing, easier than treating part by part :mad ():

But they fail to understand that if someone was smart enough to find the source on these filesharing sites in the first place, he would surely be able to find the alternative soon enough.

Does that mean I can access the sites if change to Google DNS or Open DNS?

 

[Sushubh]

Not these blocks. These would need proxy or VPN.

 

[rj27]

Does that mean I can access the sites if change to Google DNS or Open DNS?

Not these blocks. These would need proxy or VPN.

Won't work with popular DNS services like Google DNS, Open DNS or the Indian ISP DNS. (working fine today somehow)

However other free DNS like Level 3 and VPN dns listed below works fine checked yesterday thoroughly-

DNS advantage -

156.154.70.1
156.154.70.1

Level 3 DNS-

209.244.0.3
209.244.0.4

Private Internet access DNS-

209.222.18.222
209.222.18.218

I can switch between them easily with just 1 click

 

[newuser990]

^that makes no sense.

 

[x720]

Can access on mtnl and rcom wireless.

Changing DNS doesn't work.