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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ by pluc on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:02AM (#25747754)
> sci-hub.hns/ could not be resolved by HNS.to. Please try another Handshake resolver..

Can't censor what you can't reach, checkmate.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ by rasengan on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:05AM (#25747802)
Resolves for me:

$ host sci-hub.hns

sci-hub.hns has address 186.2.163.57

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ by pluc on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:09AM (#25747849)
Doesn't resolve for me on Cloudflare DNS:

$ host sci-hub.hns

Host sci-hub.hns not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

And the web frontend is unable to render anything, echoing that message I quoted above.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ by rasengan on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:19AM (#25747966)
Cloudflare doesn’t yet resolve handshake names, but hopefully this changes soon.

Paging @jgc !

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ by zoobab on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:14AM (#25747897)
Next step is to censor the IP address.
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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ by supandi on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:07PM (#25771352)
That doesn't do much. One can easily switch to another ip within the same host provider. The real problem is censoring the name, which they claim to have resolved.
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