[83575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Thu Aug 18 10:12:14 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:11:48 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <cistron.ce8d9033050818025539aefd62@mail.gmail.com>,
Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com> wrote:
>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.
The database you're talking about is DNS, not the WHOIS database.
There is no central DNS database. The DNS database is distributed
in a tree-like fashion.
Mike.
