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Hm, I got: "... European sanctions The Council of Europe has decided that the websites of RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik News may no longer be transm

Hm, I got: "... European sanctions The Council of Europe has decided that the websites of RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik News may no longer be transmitted. The website you are trying to visit falls under this European sanction. ..."

TonyTrapp 2y ago
Works fine here from a European IP.
- jaapz 2y ago
  It's blocked at least in the Netherlands. Weirdly it mentions it being part of the sanctions against Russia, while from a cursory search I only found a judge ordering the site to be blocked because of copyright issues (thanks Brein). They probably just show the wrong error page?
  - rchard2scout 2y ago
    It's blocked by my corporate networking filter for me, in the category "Illegal downloads". So the Russian sanctions message is probably incorrect indeed.
  - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
    Must be ISP specific, I'm also in NL and can access it fine.
    - jaapz 2y ago
      I'm on Ziggo
  - rollulus 2y ago
    I'm also in NL. Ziggo's DNS server blocks it: $ dig annas-archive.org @89.101.251.228 annas-archive.org. 360 IN CNAME unavailable.for.legal.reasons. unavailable.for.legal.reasons. 339 IN A 213.46.185.10 213.46.185.10 serves a generic page mentioning Russia Today and the Pirate Bay. Not sure which one applies here.
    - Freak_NL 2y ago
      Same for KPN: http://195.121.82.125/ http://195.121.82.125/ Would Tweak have blocked this? Most households in the Netherlands currently have the choice of Ziggo, KPN, and Odido. Long live VPNs…
      - xp84 2y ago
        Is that three broadband providers serving the same address?? You guys are so lucky you don’t even know. In America we generally have a choice of one if you aren’t including Starlink or legacy slow satellite. And perhaps a joke of a 1-6Mbps DSL option in some parts.
        reddalo 2y ago
        Oh wow, don't look at Italy so! At my current address I have coverage from at least 7 different providers (even though they're all based on only 3 different infrastructures/lines).
        xp84 2y ago
        Three usable lines to your home??? I hope you're happy, you've made at least one American cry today.
        reddalo 2y ago
        Yes. One of those three lines is based on the old copper phone lines; the other two are optical fiber (FTTH). I currently have a 1 Gbps down / 300 Mbps up unlimited connection, and I pay only 16 euros (~16 USD) per month. I wonder why the US is so bad on home internet connections, but maybe it's because of the scale of your country?
    - seszett 2y ago
      > CNAME unavailable.for.legal.reasons. Not really standards compliant, but an interesting use of DNS.
reddalo 2y ago
I think the website is censored at DNS level but they chose the wrong error page. In Italy it just errors out with a NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
- flir 2y ago
  You're just cleared up a minor mystery I never bothered to investigate (BT, UK). Thanks. Flipping DNS to 8.8.4.4 fixed it for now but I really need to move this connection to A&A.
powerhugs 2y ago
Switch DNS to like 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) or 8.8.8.8 (Google)

TonyTrapp 2y ago

Works fine here from a European IP.

jaapz 2y ago
It's blocked at least in the Netherlands. Weirdly it mentions it being part of the sanctions against Russia, while from a cursory search I only found a judge ordering the site to be blocked because of copyright issues (thanks Brein). They probably just show the wrong error page?
- rchard2scout 2y ago
  It's blocked by my corporate networking filter for me, in the category "Illegal downloads". So the Russian sanctions message is probably incorrect indeed.
- Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  Must be ISP specific, I'm also in NL and can access it fine.
  - jaapz 2y ago
    I'm on Ziggo
- rollulus 2y ago
  I'm also in NL. Ziggo's DNS server blocks it: $ dig annas-archive.org @89.101.251.228 annas-archive.org. 360 IN CNAME unavailable.for.legal.reasons. unavailable.for.legal.reasons. 339 IN A 213.46.185.10 213.46.185.10 serves a generic page mentioning Russia Today and the Pirate Bay. Not sure which one applies here.
  - Freak_NL 2y ago
    Same for KPN: http://195.121.82.125/ http://195.121.82.125/ Would Tweak have blocked this? Most households in the Netherlands currently have the choice of Ziggo, KPN, and Odido. Long live VPNs…
    - xp84 2y ago
      Is that three broadband providers serving the same address?? You guys are so lucky you don’t even know. In America we generally have a choice of one if you aren’t including Starlink or legacy slow satellite. And perhaps a joke of a 1-6Mbps DSL option in some parts.
      - reddalo 2y ago
        Oh wow, don't look at Italy so! At my current address I have coverage from at least 7 different providers (even though they're all based on only 3 different infrastructures/lines).
        xp84 2y ago
        Three usable lines to your home??? I hope you're happy, you've made at least one American cry today.
        reddalo 2y ago
        Yes. One of those three lines is based on the old copper phone lines; the other two are optical fiber (FTTH). I currently have a 1 Gbps down / 300 Mbps up unlimited connection, and I pay only 16 euros (~16 USD) per month. I wonder why the US is so bad on home internet connections, but maybe it's because of the scale of your country?
  - seszett 2y ago
    > CNAME unavailable.for.legal.reasons. Not really standards compliant, but an interesting use of DNS.

reddalo 2y ago

I think the website is censored at DNS level but they chose the wrong error page. In Italy it just errors out with a NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

flir 2y ago
You're just cleared up a minor mystery I never bothered to investigate (BT, UK). Thanks. Flipping DNS to 8.8.4.4 fixed it for now but I really need to move this connection to A&A.

powerhugs 2y ago

Switch DNS to like 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) or 8.8.8.8 (Google)