I am in China. Why is the DBL listing non-spam domains such as twitter.com, facebook.com or pinterest.com?
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I am in China. Why is the DBL listing non-spam domains such as twitter.com, facebook.com or pinterest.com?
The DBL is not listing twitter.com, facebook.com, pinterest.com or other social network domains.
Network traffic entering or exiting China can be altered if it contains particular keywords or domains.
- This is due to the policy set by the Golden Shield Project which is operated by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division.
- The interference of the Chinese government’s system has the following consequences for the DBL:
- Spamhaus has servers located in China, to better serve our Chinese customers, but the DBL is not available on those servers. They are only used to answers queries relative to IP addresses (SBL, PBL, XBL).
- Spamhaus users in China will get all DBL answers from servers located outside China, and it is possible the answers will be altered as described above.
- It is therefore very important that all users in China validate our responses by having their software check that the A record is a valid one in the range 127.0.1.0-127.0.1.255.
- Any other code is a result of the actions of the Golden Shield Project and the queried domain is not listed by DBL.