[83554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abhishek Verma)
Thu Aug 18 05:55:43 2005
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:25:19 +0530
From: Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com>
To: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1124357649.4610.TMDA@mercury.zynet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> If we, is the US department of commerce, the answer is probably yes.
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> The only operational significance, is that there is no way easy way of
> estimating in advance the effect of removing valid DNS information from t=
he
> system, unless you are the administrator of the system concerned (and eve=
n
> then mistakes happen - not when I do it of course<cough>).
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> i.e. It may be that a nameserver called "ns1.example.com" supports domain=
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> a completely different TLD, like "example.co.uk", which belongs to an
> important organisation or service.
Okay, so i am not talking about blocking or removing a name server. I
am talking of removing that offending entry (like www.abc.com) from
the whois database or whereever the central database is mantained.
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> That said spammers routinely have domains, and nameservers, removed with =
very
> little if any damage to legitimate Internet users.
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> The real question is should we, words don't kill people, people kill peop=
le.
Definitely!
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