Xmarks blocked by Department of Telecom

Yup, I can confirm that it's blocked here on Reliance broadband. *yawn*

Looks like Reliance will block all the websites in the coming days and the only website accessible will be rcom.co.in ...........

@M05f3t

The bsnl tracert you posted neither goes through TATA nor RCOM, but through Cable&Wireless, iinm, how so ?

Tracing route to Xmarks | Bookmark Sync and Search [38.127.167.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

MTNL Mumbai 3G
Weird 3G IPs
3 38 ms 39 ms 39 ms static-mum-59.185.3.225.mtnl.net.in [59.185.3.225]
4 55 ms 39 ms 74 ms 121.244.68.98.static-lvsb.vsnl.net.in [121.244.68.98]
5 282 ms 282 ms 282 ms if-11-0-0-550.core1.S9R-Singapore.as6453.net [209.58.82.221]
6 288 ms 288 ms 288 ms if-11-2-2-0.tcore1.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net [209.58.82.174]
7 310 ms 293 ms 292 ms if-6-2.tcore2.TV2-Tokyo.as6453.net [180.87.12.110]
8 292 ms 292 ms 292 ms if-2-2.tcore1.TV2-Tokyo.as6453.net [180.87.180.1]
9 294 ms 292 ms 293 ms if-9-2.tcore2.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [180.87.180.17]
10 309 ms 305 ms 305 ms Vlan3254.icore1.SQN-SanJose.as6453.net [66.198.144.6]
11 295 ms 301 ms 295 ms te2-5.ccr02.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.12.21]
12 298 ms 297 ms 298 ms te0-2-0-4.mpd22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.9]
13 333 ms 333 ms 332 ms te0-0-0-2.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.33]
14 303 ms 303 ms 303 ms te0-4-0-3.mpd22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.177]
15 303 ms 303 ms 303 ms te0-0-0-1.mpd22.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.40.233]
16 312 ms * 310 ms te4-2.mpd01.iad03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.29.122]
17 315 ms 313 ms 314 ms howrey.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.58.82]
18 309 ms 309 ms 310 ms 38.127.167.4

Trace complete.

Looks like FB is not working right now!



Question, do they have these much guts? :O

Wait till 2014 elections. things are going to get much worse.

@M05f3t

The bsnl tracert you posted neither goes through TATA nor RCOM, but through Cable&Wireless, iinm, how so ?

Dunno 🙁

Did it again on the main PC, same result:

A tracert to the CW IP takes me via Airtel, strange again, given the fact that neither bsnl nor mtnl buy bandwidth from Bharti, or perhaps they've started to do so.

Tracert to C&W IP:

3 131 ms 29 ms 11 ms 218.248.162.74 4 71 ms 97 ms 107 ms 218.248.255.22 5 49 ms 73 ms 65 ms 218.248.250.82 6 409 ms 327 ms 321 ms so-7-0-0-zcr1.lnt.cw.net [166.63.222.9] 7 480 ms 403 ms 505 ms so-2-0-0-xcr2.lsw.cw.net [195.2.2.5] 8 400 ms 415 ms 417 ms xe-3-0-1-xcr1.lns.cw.net [195.2.25.250] 9 361 ms 401 ms 487 ms xe-1-3-1-xcr1.lnd.cw.net [195.2.28.133] 10 306 ms 313 ms 345 ms xe-5-3-0-xcr1.nyk.cw.net [195.2.25.197] 11 501 ms 435 ms 341 ms so-7-2-0-1-ecr1.nyk.cw.net [195.2.5.189]
(Ignore the high latencies, my connection is maxed out right now)

166.63.222.9 is again: 166.63.222.9 - United States IP. Detailed location, ISP and more info.

On 23 April, 2012, Vodafone announced an agreement to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide for £1.04 billion.

Cable & Wireless Worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

C&W = Vodafone?

I tried accessing Xmarks to see some previously synced bookmarks but the page shows a message "this site is blocked by department of telecom (DOT)"
This is very surprising because Xmarks is a legit website and they have nothing to do with piracy. Until today I thought only websites with pirated stuff gets blocked.

Does anybody know why?

use a proxy like www.stupidcensorship.com / ninja proxy / hidemyass.com dont know why so may block these days but in my airtel noida no site is blocked at all
no torrent / music site is blocked here

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