[132665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Tue Nov 30 01:00:02 2010
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:58:22 -0500
From: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20101130055744.GN16087@sizone.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:52:50AM -0500, Jeffrey Lyon said:
>Super unnecessary. If you want to be outside the grasp of U.S. law
>find yourself a ccTLD.
Perhaps for his reasons at the time yes, but I'm applying it to the topic of
the suspended-for-now-bill that allows blocking of any domain in the US. Alt
root servers, as mentioned, would solve this. (And an encrypted p2p alt root
system perhaps running on dynamic ports would be harder to block.)
/kc
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