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maxlohtoday at 10:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why didn't the Indian government block traffics based on IP instead? That would make it much harder to bypass.


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arch-choottoday at 11:03 AM

If i'm not mistaken its because IPs are actually much easier to rotate than domains.

E.g. all the users will remember `example.com` , underlying it doesn't matter what IP it resolves to. If the IP gets "burned" , then the providers can rotate to a new IP (if their provider allows).

Vs. telling your users to use a new domain `example.org` , fake websites etc.

Also sensible ISPs usually don't block IPs since for services behind a CDN it could lead to other websites being blocked, though of course sometimes this is ignored. See also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/

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