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TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification


Don't believe what you read in the medias, you already know that. In an article about DNS censorship, TorrentFreak claims that "However, ...

26 mai 2025Don't believe what you read in the medias, you already know that. In an article about DNS censorship, TorrentFreak claims that “However, unlike Cloudflare, there is no notification whatsoever [when Google public resolver censors a domain].“This is clearly false. The line with the EDE (Extended DNS Error, standardized in RFC 8914) correctly uses the code 16, whose name is self-explanatory (“censored”) and give details, as well as a reference to Lumen for extra transparency.

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