[42718] in Cypherpunks
Re: censored? corrected [Steve Pizzo cited in The Spotlight]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Thu Nov 2 13:32:30 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: dreschs@mpd.tandem.com (Sten Drescher)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:10:43 -0800 (PST)
Cc: llurch@networking.stanford.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com, stevep@songline.com
In-Reply-To: <199511021624.KAA05751@galil.austnsc.tandem.com.> from "Sten Drescher" at Nov 2, 95 10:24:55 am
>
> Is it? This is the _one_ thing in the article (is that term
> giving it too much legitimacy?) that I whought was barely true. Whoever
> controls the root level DNS servers effectively controls the Internet.
> I postulated a couple of months ago about how the US Govt might attempt
> to censor the rest of the world: "Remove lurid.porno.site.other-country
> from your DNS system within 72 hours or we will remove references to
> your DNS servers from the root level servers.". (I also speculated that
> if the US Govt tried doing this, that an 'underground' DNS system would
> form almost immediately.)
>
The US govt. doesn't run the root nameservers, nor are all the
root nameservers within US jurisdiction.
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