Re:Wikimedia DNS
by codetrotter on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:17PM
(#37413197)
Does it resolve queries for pirate websites like Pirate Bay, Sci-Hub, etc?
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Apologies for the janky formatting as I'm on mobile and copying from a tmux session but: yes, it seems that it does.
$ dig @wikimedia-dns.org +tls libgen.is
; <<>> DiG 9.18.16-1~deb12u1-Debian <<>> @wikimedia-dns.org +tls libgen.is
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5711
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;libgen.is. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
libgen.is. 3600 IN A 193.218.118.42
;; Query time: 283 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:67c:930::1#853(wikimedia-dns.org) (TLS)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 06 20:57:49 EDT 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54