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Since February, italian Government blocked access to 500+ Casino and Betting sites, forcing italians to use only the “official” governative web site, www.snai.it. After a couple of days, italian people discovered that it was only a stupid sabotage of local DNS servers, and it was sufficient to do a WhoIs of blocked addresses to get real IPs and to connect correctly.

Now, an italian blogger, Giuseppe Iuculano, released a .txt file with the whole list of the 504 blocked addresses, and the relative IPs. Giuseppe explains that it’s sufficient to append the content of the file to the Windows’ HOSTS file (located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc), with a simple copy n’ paste, to override the sabotated block on DNS server, and to correctly connect to any site without problems.

As Giuseppe said, I want to highlight that I’m strongly irritated by this illiberal law, that puts Italy near to the Chinese Censorship, but on the other side I want to remember that, currently, it’s prohibited to bet on these sites from Italy.
Anyway there’s nothing that can prohibit italian people to connect to a site (I often connect myself to BetAndWin to check sport results in real time )

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