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DNS Resolver Quad9 Will Leave France After Court Orders Piracy Blocking Penalty * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] ivanvector@piefed.ca 46 points 1 week ago

They're suspending service to French users, not physically leaving (I don't know where they are). It seems they're not sure how to do that, though.

[-] stevles@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Simple geoblocking IP tables or firewall rule. There’s no way their team couldn’t figure this out, Google has the answer.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think folks like them would bother with geoblocking, given their principle. Most likely the French govt would block them first.

[-] jello@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

Seems like they're blocking French networks (ISPs?) instead of IP addresses, since GeoIP blocking was found insufficient by a German court. I struggled to understand their actual plans from their blogpost though, maybe someone else can interpret it better?

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

how? They use DNS to "block" access to websites by not resolving domain name, if they would have an other way to block a service they wouldn't need to ask DNS provider to do so

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

They can make the ISPs block certain IP addresses, perhaps

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