Due to court orders, OpenDNS shutdown itself in France and Portugal
OpenDNS service inaccessible in France, certain territories, and Portugal from June 28, 2024, due to legal mandates under French Sport code and Portuguese Copyright Code. Users informed via OpenDNS Community platform.
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The OpenDNS service is no longer accessible to users in France and certain French territories, as well as in Portugal, starting from June 28, 2024. This decision follows court orders issued in France under Article L.333-10 of the French Sport code and in Portugal under Article 210-G(3) of the Portuguese Copyright Code. The service disruptions are a result of legal mandates, and OpenDNS apologizes for any inconvenience caused to users in these regions. This update was shared on the OpenDNS Community platform to inform users about the unavailability of the service in the mentioned countries due to legal restrictions.
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2 commentsOpenDNS prefered shutdown itself from those countries instead of lying to their users.
root@jack:~# dig google.com @208.67.222.222
; <<>> DiG 9.18.19-1~deb12u1-Debian <<>> google.com @208.67.222.222
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 37178
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1410
; EDE: 16 (Censored)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
google.com. 0 IN TXT "Due to a court order in
France issued under Article L.333-10 of the French Sport code the OpenDNS
service is not currently available to users in France and certain French
territories."
;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 28 20:29:00 CEST 2024
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