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Re:Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails t... by ipsi on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:04AM (#22317379)
I'm in Germany, so definitely inside the EU. Though I'm using a non-European DNS (NextDNS) so maybe that has something to do with it?
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Re:Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails t... by mnw21cam on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:12AM (#22317409)
The web site you are accessing doesn't get to know which DNS server you are using.
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Re:Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails t... by kashug on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:00AM (#22317750)
yes, and no. Some sites use DNS to route traffic to different servers for different regions. For instance you could have you site hosted on 2 different data-centers. 1 in EU and 1 in US. And then make US-centric DNS route traffic for your site to the US-datacenter and he EU-centric-dns to EU-data-center.

In that way you kinda know which DNS they used.

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Re:Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails t... by ThePowerOfFuet on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:15AM (#22317433)
Yeah, it likely isn't using eDNS.
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