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Ask HN: Is Hacker News Blocked in India?
Woke up today and couldn't access the site. Had to connect to VPN to load the site. I'm aware of content blocking in India but why block hackernews?
- ghoul2 5y agoI raised a ticket with Airtel - their technical team called back and said they were having "routing table" issues and that they were working to fix it. He was unable to provide more details and did not provide a time-to-fix.
- unarmednose 5y agoGlad it's not because of some vague censorship. Thanks for the info.
- rahtoken 5y agoI couldn’t access it without a VPN too, but other folk with different ISPs seem to be able to access it. Airtel is my ISP, is yours the same too? If so, it’s even more puzzling why Airtel has decided to block it.
- unarmednose 5y agoUsing a tracepath does point to Airtel. So, I'm assuming it is atleast using Airtel to route my traffic.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoi have DOH on firefox and jio fiber and it works nicely
- stillblue 5y agoWhat's DOH?
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agodns over https
- stillblue 5y agoThank you
- tamizhgeek89 5y agoACT is my ISP. Working fine for me.
- tushar-r 5y agoBlocked for me over AirTel as well, works fine on VPN.
- tushar-r 5y agoWorks now.
- superasn 5y agoYes not working on Airtel. Works fine on jio 4G though.
- arrayjumper 5y agoSame for me. I'm on airtel.
- ffpip 5y agoSame for me, on Airtel. Can only access with a VPN or TOR Pinging news.ycombinator.com [209.216.230.240] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out.
- roystonvassey 5y agoYep, was out most of the day (until 7 pm I think). Airtel is my ISP as well.
- swissfunicular 5y agoAirtel Fiber for me. Came alive at around 9PM IST. Worked on VI though