GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401784

by gtrubetskoy • 12 years ago

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news.ycombinator.com

http://eais.rkn.gov.ru/en/#form (requires captcha)

The requested address is blacklisted

Blacklisting Authorization Date 24.03.2014 Blacklisting Authorization Number 4138 Blacklisting Decision Maker Роспотребнадзор Blacklisting Date 02.10.2014 Resource: github.com

sarciszewski• 12 years ago

On a scale of 1-10, this registers a solid 7 on my personal rustle-meter. Especially since I have friends in Russia who do open source work on Github :(

rabbyte• 12 years ago

Am I wrong in thinking this only adds 1 step to your friends workflow given that git is decentralized?

ClashTheBunny6• 12 years ago

Maybe this is a problem with GitHub. Too much re-centralization of the git protocol. How many people ever learned how to use git without GitHub?

lambda2• 12 years ago

Yeah, this is the problem with people centralizing on GitHub.

But anyhow, just set up a mirror at BitBucket or Gitorious, and have them push to one of those for pull requests.

__xtrimsky3• 12 years ago

Small question, git noob here. The comments that we see on github (outside of the commit messages), are these comments stored on github, or is it something git related.

Logically I would think the comments are just an extra layer added by github, but theoritically git could have comments also decentralized and stored, this is why I'm asking.

NDFA• 12 years ago

That text is already on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/w2trsdef3/trapapa Streisand effect is in place.

ancarda• 12 years ago

Nicer formatting:

    The requested address is blacklisted

    Blacklisting Authorization Date    Blacklisting Authorization Number    Blacklisting Decision Maker    Blacklisting Date
    24.03.2014                         4138                                 Роспотребнадзор                   02.10.2014

Is there anything we can do about this?

__xtrimsky3• 12 years ago

Google Translate says the Decision Maker is CPS (Child Protective Services). So it's most likely just a mistake.

depth_breadth2• 12 years ago

Роспотребнадзор actually translates to Consumer Protection Services.

gtrubetskoy3• 12 years ago

I think "decision maker" means they are acting on some sort of a complaint/request. Rospotrebnadzor ("Ros" - Russia, "Potreb" - Consumer or Consumption, "Nadzor" - Oversight) is simply the government org whose responsibilities include blacklisting. There is no way to tell from that website what led to this decision as far as I can tell.

dkns• 12 years ago

What does this mean exactly? You can no longer access github.com from within Russian territory?

gtrubetskoy3• 12 years ago

I think it means that ISPs are obligated to abide by this ruling and probably have some reasonable amount of time to adjust their filters. It may be accessible now, but won't be in a day or two.

Someone12342• 12 years ago

Lame that they blocked it, nice that they readily admit blocking it. Wish the UK would do this with their great firewall, they have mistakenly blocked things too may times.

DanBC2• 12 years ago

Do you have any examples of things mistakenly blocked?

Someone12342• 12 years ago

Wikipedia, Reddit, Imgur, et al.

They often are only blocked for hours at a time but it is still heavily disruptive.

pavel_lishin• 12 years ago

I don't understand why or how the роспотребнадзор is responsible for this.

osipov• 12 years ago

Don't panic. It turns out that someone committed a text file with instructions on how to commit suicide and then reported him/herself to the Russian oversight agency. Typical bureaucratic stupidity. This will be unblocked shortly.

rev• 12 years ago

Exactly. Only a few regional ISPs have been blocking GitHub for a short amount of time.

BuildTheRobots• 12 years ago

Don't suppose you have a mirror of what was posted? I'm kinda intrigued...

taternuts• 12 years ago

https://github.com/muromec/blog/blob/d0a4b73064b0d2306a6184b...

cyphunk• 12 years ago

"dont panic" is ironic. Panic not because access was lost but because the conditions for loss were so trivial.

pietro• 12 years ago

I just tried and got "The requested IP address is not blacklisted".

pkrs2• 12 years ago

Seems that it was banned because of this commit about suicide https://github.com/amdf/objidlib/commit/e9c31e97c0ca7863516f...

Based on the previous experience if github reacts in any way this will probably get resolved sometime in the future.

peterwaller• 12 years ago

As of now that project doesn't appear to exist.

pkrs2• 12 years ago

Screenshot for the curious http://habrahabr.ru/post/239021/#comment_8027431

danabramov• 12 years ago

The suicide methods listed in this commit include "stick pencils in your nose and hit the table". Clearly we as citizens shouldn't know that.

http://i.imgur.com/OLDgdiX.png

undefined0• 12 years ago

Here is an archived copy (full list): https://archive.today/tLCKI

taybin• 12 years ago

also "Turn Yourself Into Hydrogen Bomb" and "Nanomachines"

dolphin278• 12 years ago

It was removed from blacklist few minutes ago.

gtrubetskoy3• 12 years ago

Yep, indeed - http://eais.rkn.gov.ru/en/#form no longer shows it.

dang• 12 years ago

Thanks; we changed the title accordingly.

ioquatix• 12 years ago

What's the chance the blacklist administration code is hosted on github?

Gonzih• 12 years ago

Hm, so there is basically easy way to use filters to block any website (at least temporary) for the Russian segment of the Internet? I don't see how it might go wrong.

ClashTheBunny6• 12 years ago

Here's an interesting problem. The person who committed the text file about suicide has a .ua domain in their GitHub Profile; would this be a specific way to troll Russia if you're Ukrainian? Just start finding important sites and post stuff on there that are legal everywhere but Russia? Not that March 23 is that good of turnaround for Russia to get it blocked when they can unblock it in a couple of hours.

cabirum• 12 years ago

official blacklist xml if anyone's interested: https://paste.ee/r/1IYgN

dleskov• 12 years ago

Just want to make one thing clear: in this particular case the request was to block a specific URI. It is the (smaller) ISPs that do not have a technology to block an URI and the (bigger) ISPs that do not bother to employ that tech who block entire sites by IP addresses.

splix• 12 years ago

1. was blocked by large countrywide ISPs, like Beeline and Domru 2. Github uses SSL, and there is no way to block specific URI under https://

drinchev• 12 years ago

I'm not sure, so I ask. Who is blocking those IP Address and from who are they blocked?

GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia

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