Allegations of blocking Fonseka’s online petition :

A lie - Sinhalaya News Agency

The allegation by JVP MP Vijitha Herath against Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRC) Director General Anusha Pelpita on the deactivation of the web site which includes the “Online Petition” launched seeking the release of Gen. Sarath Fonseka is a total lie, the Sinhalaya News Agency said.

The Sinhalaya News Agency conducted a special technical review on the issue.

This so called Online Petition was launched in a site named www.freesarathfonseka.com and the Sinhalaya News Agency examined all the Administrative and other Domain Name System (DNS) information related to the domain of “freesarathfonseka.com” to testify that the accusation of the JVP against the TRC is a total lie.

The site is launched in a server with IP Protocol 96.0.176.2 and is located in Hopkins, USA (Hopkinsville, KY, US) and for further clarifications anybody can dial +1-614-534-1960.

The physical location of the Web Server is in USA and only the administrators or the operators with proper access rights (Username, password and the IP address of the Server) can do data entry operations and updates.

Any Web Hosting Service Provider can understand that the administration of the domain is not available to anybody but only to people with proper login details.

If at all any of the authorities in Sri Lanka wished to block the site, it could be done only to restrict the access of the Internet Service Providers (ISP) located in Sri Lanka. A Sri Lankan organization or any such company can only block the site within Sri Lanka, not Worldwide. Viewers only in Sri Lanka cannot access the site.

But a simultaneous checking carried out by the Sinhalaya News Agency found out that the site is not accessible to England, Australia, France, Middle East, USA and even to Japan. None of our correspondents in those countries could view the site. Therefore, it’s prominent that the site is not visible worldwide.

And such a provision is being given to none other than the administrators of the web site. Only the administrators have the right to activate or deactivate a web site.

The JVP has again come up with a failed fiction to accuse the government that their so called “Web Site” is deactivated because the Sri Lankan authorities have blocked it. Sinhalaya News