Colombo Telegraph Blocked, How To Reach Us Now: Sri Lanka Telecom And Mobitel Joins The DPI Club!
August 28, 2013
Starting the Friday, 23rd of August 2013 a large number of connections to http://www.colombotelegraph.com were failing. Readers of the website started to report that the site was not available inside of Sri Lanka from some Internet providers.
Colombo Telegraph is strictly a public interest website relating to Sri Lankan matters and is run completely voluntarily by a group of exiled journalists. The site gives space to a wide range of political views and censored/ underreported stories. Colombo Telegraph has the honour of being first and only Sri Lankan site to be approved for inclusion in ‘Guardian Select‘. It was checked and approved for Guardian Select membership by Guardian editorial. Guardian Select bring together the very best independent publishers from across the web.
History of Colombo Telegraph blocking
First -December 26, 2011 - We are blocked but we will not be stopped
Second - May 8, 2012 -Colombo Telegraph Blocked Again
Third - March 29, 2013 - Sri Lanka Blocks Colombo Telegraph and Selected Tweets: Colombo Telegraph Unblocked
Other attempts
As the server has been blocked in the past, it was reasonable to believe that blocking was taking place again. In order to verify the cause of the problem we checked 500 different connections inside of Sri Lanka to see from where such blocking was taking place.
Who is blocking the site?
From our analysis we can see that connections from AS45356 and AS9329 are currently blocked. The providers are MOBITEL-LK and STINT-AS-AP
Other providers as AS18001/DIALOG showed signs of blocking the 24th of August but is currently open. The provider AS8966/ETISALAT has never show signs of filtering.Read More
