Re: Anyone from Airtel or Tata on list? DNS block issue on search engine

[Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com>]

Hi John


Did you hear back from anyone? If not, please unicast me and I will connect
you with friends in those organisations.
Also, you may consider putting to INNOG
<https://www.innog.net/mailing-list/> mailing list
<https://www.innog.net/mailing-list/> which is more relevant for any issues
you see with Indian operators. It's a fairly new NOG but some of us are
trying hard to make it work.


Thanks.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:51 PM John Von Essen <john () essenz com> wrote:

> Starting yesterday, we’ve noticed the search engine DuckDuckGo being
> blocked via DNS in India. Specifically, users using Airtel or Tata DNS
> servers. Other search engines are fine (Bing, etc.,.). I know alot of
> blocking is occurring in India recently, but I think the net was
> incorrectly cast over this one. Its not all ISPs in India, so far just
> Airtel and Tata.
>
>
> $ dig @122.166.234.70 duckduckgo.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @122.166.234.70 duckduckgo.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 7316
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;duckduckgo.com.                        IN      A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> rpz.airtelblack.com.    262     IN      SOA     rpz.airtelblack.com.
> hostmaster.rpz.airtelblack.com. 2360 3 3 2419200 604800
>
>
> $ dig @59.163.126.38 duckduckgo.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @59.163.126.38 duckduckgo.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36722
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;duckduckgo.com.                        IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> duckduckgo.com.         10800   IN      A       127.0.0.1



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