[83546] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Carr)
Thu Aug 18 04:44:46 2005
From: "Brett Carr" <brettcarr@ripe.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:41:09 +0200
In-Reply-To: <ce8d903305081801202af5bd9d@mail.gmail.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Abhishek Verma
> Sent: 18 August 2005 10:20
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a doubt which i am sure a lot of people in this list
> would be able to help me with.
>
> There was news that terror groups like Al Qaida, etc. are
> using internet to promote their terror links and these web
> sites provide online training on how one could assemble bombs, etc.
>
> The community as a whole wants to close all such web sites. I
> dont think there is any ambiguity there.
>
> My question is why cant we ban websites like, say,
> alqaida.com (hypothetical name), etc. from the whois database.
>
> As far as i understand if there is a website with the name of
> www.abc.com then it needs to register itself with the whois
> database (from network solutions) so that all the queries to
> this website can be forwarded to the corresponding
> nameserver. Now, if we want to block abc.com permanently then
> cant we simply remove this URL entry from the whois database?
>
> Will this work?
It would stop them using whichever hostnames you banned but do you really
think this would stop them using the internet.
Terrorist1: Mmmm seems the internet community have put a stop to us using
www.bombsrus.com
Terrorist2: Ok right lets give up and strive for world peace instead.
I don't think so :)
More likely they will (and already are) hiding behind very non terror
sounding names, not a lot we can do about that really.
Brett..
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