[HN Gopher] TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification
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       TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification
        
       Author : Harvesterify
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2025-05-26 09:21 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (write.as)
        
       | gertop wrote:
       | If the DNS error doesn't bubble up to the eyes of the average
       | user it might as well not exist, so torrentfreak isn't wrong.
       | 
       | Of course CloudFlare hijacking the domain and sending traffic to
       | a page they host isn't a great solution either...
        
         | bstsb wrote:
         | for Cloudflare, looks like they're just following the
         | instructions they were given in the court order - to redirect
         | the website.
         | 
         | in no way supporting the act itself of dns blocking
        
       | TonyTrapp wrote:
       | There's a box labelled "Submit a correction or tip" at the bottom
       | of the original article. Filling that in might have been better
       | time spent than writing a blog post.
        
         | mankyd wrote:
         | Who's to say they didn't?
         | 
         | Writing a follow up post is certainly valuable for raising
         | awareness to anyone who had already read the original erroneous
         | article.
        
       | Bender wrote:
       | The vast majority of people will not see EDE errors. Even when
       | they are set there is no guarantee that downstream resolvers have
       | it enabled. The default in Unbound is disabled and people rarely
       | check logs. Even if someone is using DoH their browser would have
       | to translate the specific text to the user if it received such an
       | error. Here [1] are some notes on the support of EDE around the
       | internet.
       | 
       | As a side note I do not see that error for that domain. I get an
       | A record which belongs to Cloudflare. Cloudflare could just as
       | easily drop that domain into an account that displays the
       | censored error message as text/plain to the user and close the
       | connection.                   streameast.app.      282 IN A
       | 172.64.80.1
       | 
       | [1] - https://blog.apnic.net/2023/09/28/extended-dns-errors-
       | unlock...
        
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