btw, I checked out the traffic from France over the past 30 days and I
don't see an obvious drop, so this doesn't seem to have caused a real drop.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:32 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:54 AM, geni
<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Apparently on the orders of the french government
orange added us to
their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun
effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source
(among others):
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/17/une-erreur-
bloque-l-acces-a-google-pour-les-clients-d-orange_5014900_4408996.html
They also added Google to the list..?
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/frances-block-of-google-for-
terrorism-melts-govt-server-439591
Workaround: use the Google free DNS.
That is one way to force everyone to learn how to work around service
providers blocking access to terrorist websites.
--
John Vandenberg
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