[132454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?=)
Thu Nov 25 08:38:55 2010
From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Joakim Aronius <joakim@aronius.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:38:30 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20101125115556.GA18490@maya.aronius.com> (Joakim Aronius's
message of "Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:55:56 +0100")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Joe Sniderman <joseph.sniderman@thoroquel.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joakim Aronius <joakim@aronius.com> writes:
> * Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com) wrote:
>> This isnt new - there have been proposals elsewhere for a resolver
>> based blacklist of child porn sites.
>>
>
> Swedish ISPs are required to enforce a DNS blacklist for childporn,
> perhaps also other European countries.
Yes, this has alrady spread to a number of European countries:
http://circamp.eu/
> And once you get these things in place you never know where it will end...
Unfortunately, yes. We already have a pretty ugly example of that:
Telenor (Norwegian ISP) was sued by the music and film industry with a
demand that Telenor should block all access to The Pirate Bay. The
suggested method was abusing this DNS filter to block access to a number
of Pirate Bay domains.
Luckily the Norwegian court system do sometimes work:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS401576177920091106
But history usually repeats itself, so I assume this idea will come up
again. And again. And again.
Bj=C3=B8rn
