[191424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lawsuits for falsyfying DNS responses ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Sep 13 17:15:47 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <f3017498-bf8e-c60a-f024-ad674ea4fc86@pubnix.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:15:39 -0400
To: ahebert@pubnix.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
When worded this way in a legal context, I=E2=80=99m pretty sure it is =
equivalent.
That is =E2=80=9Cmay not=E2=80=9D means =E2=80=9Cis not allowed to=E2=80=9D=
.
Owen
> On Sep 13, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net> wrote:
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> Well "may" is not "must".
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> =E2=80=9C260.34. An Internet service provider may not give access to =
an online
> gambling site whose operation is not authorized under Qu=C3=A9bec law.
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> -----
> Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net =20
> PubNIX Inc. =20
> 50 boul. St-Charles
> P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7
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> On 09/12/16 13:41, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
>> As many may know, the province of Qu=C3=A9bec has passed a law to =
protect the
>> interests of its lottery corporation.
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>> To do so, it will provide ISPs with list of web sites to block (aka:
>> only allow its own gambing web site).
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>> There is an opportunity to comment this week in which I will submit.
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>> (I've gathered many arguments over the past little while already). =
But
>> have a specific question today:
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>> Are there examples of an ISP getting sued because it redirected =
traffic
>> that should have gone to original site ?
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>> For instance, user asks for www.google.com and ISP's DNS responds =
with
>> an IP that points to a bing server?
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>> If the risk of a lawsuit is real, then it brings new dimension to
>> arguments already made agains that (stupiod) Qu=C3=A9bec law.
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>> (And it also creates interesting issues for DNS servers from =
companies
>> such as Google which may have a anycast server located in Qu=C3=A9bec =
but are
>> not considered an ISP and won't receive those documenst from the gov
>> with list of websites to block.
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