GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia

[gtrubetskoy]

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

[dolphin278]

It was removed from blacklist few minutes ago.

[ioquatix]

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

[gtrubetskoy]

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

[dang]

Thanks; we changed the title accordingly.

[osipov]

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.

[cyphunk]

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

[rev]

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

[BuildTheRobots]

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

[Someone1234]

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.

[DanBC]

Do you have any examples of things mistakenly blocked?

[sarciszewski]

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]

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

[lambda]

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.

[pkrs]

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.

[danabramov]

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

[peterwaller]

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

[Gonzih]

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.

[ClashTheBunny]

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.

[ancarda]

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?

[__xtrimsky]

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

[dleskov]

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]

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://

[cabirum]

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

[drinchev]

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

[dkns]

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

[gtrubetskoy]

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.

[pavel_lishin]

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

[pietro]

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