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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by melvyn2 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:33AM (#34233653)
OP claims it’s SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by faheel on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:56AM (#34234062)
For me, and many others on Twitter, updating the DNS worked (I used 1.1.1.1). Though I'm not sure why.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by akmittal on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:14PM (#34234329)
Same for me, i changes DNS and it worked
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by kraghavk on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:03AM (#34244581)
Worked for me too!
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by ignoramous on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:13PM (#34234316)
> OP claims it's SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything.

All the apps listed do get past most rudimentary SNI-based blocks, except GoodbyeDPI which is pretty sophisticated. One still needs DoH because (unencrypted) DNS is the weakest link.

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by fragmede on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:02PM (#34237998)
Then that's not SNI-based blocking.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India by fomine3 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:46PM (#34240860)
Simple SNI-based blocking implementation may not consider complex data like fragmented packet, so some solutions work.
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