wkrp
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2 years ago Thanks for the report. I cross-posted to NTC: https://ntc.party/t/bbc-deutsche-welle/1812
OONI has some measurements of bbc.com and dw.com from the past few hours. They are only HTTP, not HTTPS, and they are all failed. Unfortunately there are not non-blocked measurements to compare with.
| date | AS | URL | result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-03 22:58 | 25513 | http://bbc.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:00 | 8359 | http://bbc.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:09 | 48124 | http://bbc.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:16 | 8359 | http://bbc.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:52 | 16345 | http://bbc.com/ | connection_reset |
Similar for dw.com.
| date | AS | URL | result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-03 22:58 | 25513 | http://dw.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:00 | 8359 | http://dw.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:09 | 48124 | http://dw.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:10 | 35816 | http://dw.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:16 | 8359 | http://dw.com/ | connection_reset |
| 2022-03-03 23:52 | 16345 | http://dw.com/ | connection_reset |
I checked the Unified Register for bbc.com, www.bbc.com, dw.com, www.dw.com, and none of them was listed. Other domains have been blocked recently without appearing on the register.
@abdallahalsalmi, something you can do is trying your curl fetch with an IP address, rather than a domain name. You may have to use the --insecure option to disable certificate verification.
Hi, it seems that the authorities in Russia have blocked BBC and German station DW a couple of hours ago.
We are witnessing a drop in traffic. I had a cron job running a simple curl of bbc.com using a Tor exit node and it's giving "Cannot be reached" messages. It was working fine since the beginning of the war.
Any testing of how the blocking is happening will be apprecited and help us find a workaround.