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Due to court orders, OpenDNS shutdown itself in France and Portugal (opendns.com)
18 points by JackSlateur 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This follows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40693451

OpenDNS prefered shutdown itself from those countries instead of lying to their users.

root@jack:~# dig google.com @208.67.222.222

  ; <<>> DiG 9.18.19-1~deb12u1-Debian <<>> google.com @208.67.222.222
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 37178
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1410
  ; EDE: 16 (Censored)
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;google.com.                    IN      A

  ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
  google.com.             0       IN      TXT     "Due to a court order in 
  France issued under Article L.333-10 of the French Sport code the OpenDNS 
  service is not currently available to users in France and certain French 
  territories."

  ;; Query time: 7 msec
  ;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222) (UDP)
  ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 28 20:29:00 CEST 2024
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 241




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