[00:00] <tomreyn> i like how this is laid out in comic sans
[00:00] <JanC> I wonder if court orders like this are public in India?
[00:00] <sarnold> oerheks: two minutes, nice :D
[00:01] <JanC> https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1cbeq8i/anyone_else_experiencing_issues_accessing_ubuntu/ someone else with this problem too
[00:01] <JanC> 2 in fact
[00:03] <JanC> I wonder if they decided to block sites like archive.org & archive.is & such and just blocked all sites containing "archive"   :)
[00:03] <oerheks> https://status.snapcraft.io/ https://status.canonical.com/
[00:27] <JanC> I wonder if they block archive.debian.org etc. too (which would contain pretty much the same stuff)
[15:12] <tomreyn> OP at https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1cbeq8i/anyone_else_experiencing_issues_accessing_ubuntu/ reports that archive access in India has been restored / blocking is undone.
[15:33] <JanC> tomreyn: no news about what happened yet?
[15:34] <JanC> also, a good reason to always have an extra mirror in your sources list, I guess...
[16:08] <tomreyn> JanC: i doubt there will be any public communication on what happened. i'm also somewhat surprised this got so little attention. it's good that it's been reverted somewhat fast, since, to me, this was clearly a case of overblocking. it's concerning that such mistakes can take full effect without being overruled by people with a technical understanding, though.
[16:11] <JanC> well, I would not expect anything to be blocked without a request to remove whatever the offending thing is first
[16:11] <JanC> and then someone should know why it was blocked  :)
[16:13] <JanC> just blocking random things without warning also isn't good optics when you want people to invest in your country...
[17:14] <Odd_Bloke> Yeah, we've seen it recover.
[17:18] <JanC> Odd_Bloke: did you try if other mirrors were blocked also?
[17:23] <Odd_Bloke> mirrors.digitalocean.com was (and that's not even listed as an official mirror), and us.archive.ubuntu.com too.  I did observe that first requests would often work, followed by failure, so there might be an inspection element to it.
[17:23] <Odd_Bloke> A random Argentinian mirror I tried seemed unaffected.
[17:24] <JanC> us.archive.ubuntu.com & in.archive.ubuntu.com are the same as archive.ubuntu.com IIRC
[17:26] <JanC> I wonder how they decided what to block
[17:27] <JanC> and why, of course...
[17:28] <Odd_Bloke> Yeah, us.archive.u.c appears to resolve to a subset of archive.u.c hosts.
[17:30] <lotuspsychje> https://broadband.forum/threads/archive-ubuntu-com-blocked-on-multiple-isps-in-india.227817/
[17:30] <lotuspsychje> canonical status gives only Component "assets.ubuntu.com HTTPS" and a few other components are Down for yesterday
[17:33] <JanC> I wonder if local mirrors run by the Indian government were also blocked  :P
[17:33] <JanC> e.g. http://mirrors.iitd.ac.in/