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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Tropical_Amnesia on 2024-12-02 17:11:47.

Now it's my turn, but at least it's with a twist this time. It's not just blocked, like it used to be, but actually unreachable. Looks pretty global, just pinging reddit.com fails with "Host not found", so I assume DNS level block. Right now for example with se-got-wg-003, possibly a few others. IPv4, I have none of the regular DNS blocks enabled.

First saw it a couple of days ago and initially thought the fault is with Reddit. Turns out it isn't, as far as I can tell it is the only site affected, which doesn't make it look like a mistake. Do note this is a Mullvad-owned server and although I'm not certain I suppose the others so far were too. Are they selectively blocking Reddit currently? Possibly due to some mass abuse in connection with specific IP ranges, and perhaps even a request by Reddit? Not sure I believe this, though what else could be the reason?

To be sure, this isn't a gripe in any way, I'm just curious, never seen before. At this time Reddit continues to be reachable normally via most of servers anyway. And whatever the reason, obviously Mullvad has any right to restrict their services in any way deemed necessary, no doubt there's something to the effect in the ToS. If they're even responsible that is, I'm not sure. Or perhaps it's just me, but I don't think so. Maybe someone likes to check.

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