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November 22, 2024, 11:17 PM UTC
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On November 22, 2024, 11:17 PM UTC, https://www.voanews.com/ was accessible when tested on AS2119 in Sweden.

Failures

HTTP Experiment
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DNS Experiment
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Control
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DNS Queries

Resolver:
62.127.96.38
Query:
IN A www.voanews.com
Engine:
system
Name
Class
TTL
Type
DATA
@
IN
A
23.210.168.121

TCP Connections

Connection to 23.210.168.121:443 succeeded.

HTTP Requests

URL
GET https://www.voanews.com/
Response Headers
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Content-Language:
en
Content-Security-Policy:
frame-ancestors 'none'
Content-Type:
text/html; charset=utf-8
Date:
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Expires:
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:19:03 GMT
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Pragma:
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max-age=31536000
X-Content-Type-Options:
nosniff
X-Ua-Compatible:
IE=edge
X-Xss-Protection:
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