The Real Blogger Status

The problem with DigiTurk, Turkish ISPs, and the Turkish courts has dragged on for several months now - and many Turkish blog owners are impatient. We see evidence of the impatience , weekly. People advised me to change my IP to 74.125.93.121 but how do we do that? This is a technical "solution" that won't work, consistently and reliably - and that will only degrade access to other blogs, worldwide (not only in Turkey), when used. Custom domain DNS setups need to use righteous addresses . Use of half ass "solutions" will only degrade service for owners and readers of blogs published to other domains , and will not provide a permanent solution for Turkish blog owners. >> Top

Recently, we've seen a few demands, from Turkish nationals and various residents and visitors in Turkey, who appear to believe that Google intentionally compelled the Turkish ISPs to block access to Google hosted content . Google needs to give us another set of IP addresses. The last set lasted for about 3 months, and has stopped working! This overlooks the detail that Turkish officials specifically warned Google that they must not attempt to bypass the Turkish blockade, by using different IP addresses. These demands that Google should use different IP addresses are also ignoring the actual reason for the use of multiple, dynamic IP addresses in the first place - the need for all Blogger and Google customers, worldwide, to access Blogger and Google services , consistently and reliably. Maximum availability of Blogger and Google services is possible only if all people needing access to Google servers be prepared to use whatever servers Google may make available , at any time. ...

This week, we have multiple reports, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , from blog owners of custom domain published blogs, of inability to access their blogs inside Turkey. I can't enter my blog from Turkey. But my friends who outside Turkey, they can visit my blog. What's the problem? and similar reports are being seen. This problem is claimed, by some Turkish residents, to be mandated by the Turkish government, and to involve an IP ban of the specific Google custom domain hosting servers. We now have a rollup discussion , where this issue is being explored. One Turkish resident in the rollup discussion provides two interesting sources. First, a direct quote from a Turkish journal Turkey’s laws on Internet censorship has been debated may times as an entire website can be banned by the content on a single page. Many Internet users had tackled the ban of YouTube by changing their DNS numbers or by using software that cracks the inaccessibility, but journalists...