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Re: Lawsuits for falsyfying DNS responses ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Sep 12 16:08:39 2016

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:08:08 -0400
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei
<jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> To do so, it will provide ISPs with list of web sites to block
>
> Are there examples of an ISP getting sued because it redirected traffic
> that should have gone to original site ?

Hi,

You're talking about two different things here: blocking a DNS domain
and redirecting a domain.

While both are technologically ineffective countermeasures against
undesired content, I would expect the legal implications to be
different.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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