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Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

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Re: PayPal and others may be able to "keep up with the regulations"...

What’s routing protocols got to do with blocking websites?

Ok. Before you get smart, BGP sinkholes *could* and *are* used to block IP addresses, typically to block a DoS these days, but it means you’d be blocking any and all services hosted on whatever the IP you’re blocking is. Which is why you can resolve multiple FQDNs to the same IP address and whatever content you’re after is sent from whatever content or application delivery controller/system the host has.

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