Hi John

Did you hear back from anyone? If not, please unicast me and I will connect you with friends in those organisations.

Also, you may consider putting to INNOG mailing list which is more relevant for any issues you see with Indian operators. It's a fairly new NOG but some of us are trying hard to make it work.

Thanks.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:51 PM John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> wrote:

Starting yesterday, we’ve noticed the search engine DuckDuckGo being blocked via DNS in India. Specifically, users using Airtel or Tata DNS servers. Other search engines are fine (Bing, etc.,.). I know alot of blocking is occurring in India recently, but I think the net was incorrectly cast over this one. Its not all ISPs in India, so far just Airtel and Tata.

$ dig @122.166.234.70 duckduckgo.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @122.166.234.70 duckduckgo.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 7316
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;duckduckgo.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
rpz.airtelblack.com. 262 IN SOA rpz.airtelblack.com. hostmaster.rpz.airtelblack.com. 2360 3 3 2419200 604800

$ dig @59.163.126.38 duckduckgo.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @59.163.126.38 duckduckgo.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36722
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;duckduckgo.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
duckduckgo.com. 10800 IN A 127.0.0.1