Unable to access http websites on BSNL Broadband

[shubham1]

From today afternoon, I am unable to access http websites and pages. E.g.- able to access cricinfo(https site) but unable to access scorecard and stats (which are http). Not sure if related to complaint by IFF. Anyone facing similar issue? Location-Lucknow.

 

[thadougamer]

Share one website for testing

 

[shubham1]

All http websites (and pages) do not work.

Example Domain

Official Board of Control for Cricket in India Website

Visit the Official Indian Cricket Team website for the latest International and Domestic cricket scores, results, highlights, player interviews and rankings

bcci.tv

Cricmetric

Cannot ping them and tracert also fail.
Tracert tests for last two

 

[hihfhyu74]

try changing dns to cloudflare

 

[anubhav11]

Same here as well.

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

Working fine in Chennai.

 

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[JB701]

Traceroute uses ICMP though (atleast on Windows) while http/https runs on TCP/UDP. I think traceroute not working and http sites not working are separate issues. I think traceroute is not working because bcci and cricmetric both uses AWS and AWS seems to be blocking ICMP, thats why you can't ping or traceroute it.

I can't traceroute it either:

Tracing route to bcci.tv [54.254.197.159]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 192.168.5.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.89.139.1
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 103.248.93.1
4 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms nsg-static-209.68.75.182-airtel.com [182.75.68.209]
5 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 182.79.146.6
6 72 ms 71 ms 71 ms 52.46.167.160
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 77 ms 76 ms 77 ms 52.93.11.52
12 72 ms 74 ms 72 ms 52.93.8.75
13 75 ms 78 ms 77 ms 203.83.223.33
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * ^C

But the site itself loads fine https://i.ibb.co/Tb86y7k/oo.png

cricmetric also uses aws which is why you aren't able to traceroute or ping it, they are blocking ICMP. The site itself is loading fine for me.

http not working is a separate issue, likely BSNL is attempting to hijack the traffic, https works because its encrypted

example.com has an https page and they don't block ping. So please try doing a traceroute to the same. Here are my results:

Tracing route to example.com [93.184.216.34]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 5 ms <1 ms 192.168.5.1
2 1 ms 2 ms 1 ms 10.89.139.1
3 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 103.248.93.1
4 3 ms 2 ms 4 ms nsg-static-209.68.75.182-airtel.com [182.75.68.209]
5 161 ms 162 ms 161 ms 182.79.154.14
6 158 ms 159 ms 159 ms ldn-b4-link.telia.net [62.115.162.232]
7 226 ms 227 ms 226 ms ldn-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.134.138]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 230 ms 229 ms 229 ms nyk-b6-link.telia.net [62.115.125.63]
10 240 ms 241 ms 238 ms edgecast-ic-317659-nyk-b5.c.telia.net [62.115.147.199]
11 219 ms 219 ms 219 ms 152.195.68.131
12 229 ms 228 ms 229 ms 93.184.216.34

Trace complete.

 

[shubham1]

Thanks for your help. Thankfully the sites have started working. So all well for now.

 

[uyscuti]

Slightly different issue in that it's not non-SSL websites, but since yesterday evening I'm unable to access travis-ci.org, and any third level domain (with the exception of www) on pi-hole.net (eg. install.p-hole.net, discourse.p-hole.net). These are a couple sites I tried to access but couldn't, and I'm sure there's many more. Everything else though (eg. google.com, github.com, wikipedia.org) seems to work just fine. Is it just me or is anyone else having trouble visiting these sites too? (on Bharat Fibre FTTH)

 

[uyscuti]

I just found out there's a separate section for Bharat Fibre related posts in this forum. Do let me know if this is the wrong topic/section and I'll repost in the right section. (also, where's the delete button?)

 

[vishalrao]

doh, travis is not opening for me on chrome or edge but it is opening on firefox! looks like BSNL is doing some DNS sneaky stuff now. maybe they are hijacking DNS (transparent proxy or whatever)?

 

[uyscuti]

(eg. install.pi-hole.net, discourse.pi-hole.net)* wrong links in previous post

 

[uyscuti]

nope, not for me

 

[uyscuti]

 

[vishalrao]

Travis CI website now opening fine for me on chrome and edge also. Must have been a temporary glitch on BSNL FTTH network. I hope they are not messing around with DNS hijacking.