-----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.. -- Brett Carr Ripe Network Coordination Centre System Engineer -- Operations Group Singel 258 Amsterdam NL GPG Key fingerprint = F20D B2A7 C91D E370 44CF F244 B6A1 EF48 E743 F7D8