Joseph S D Yao wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:30:46PM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: ...
Where did that come from? I respect you but please, let's have a technical discussion. This is important enough for us all to avoid the flame-wars for now. Don't move this thread to politics or lunacies.
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Then leave governments out of it, and re-phrase the question in this way. If one can not run one's own DNS server on the public Internet, but must rely on a DNS service supplier for your DNS, and at some point you start to wonder about the technical competence or correct configura- tion of the DNS service supplier whose DNS you are configured to use, and all other DNS servers out there are configured to refuse recursive service except perhaps to their own population, than against what can you compare the DNS service that you are getting, to see whether it is giving you what "the world" should be seeing?
That is exactly what worries me. In germany censoring is commonplace. You have to use foraign resolvers to escape it. There is a lot collateral dammage too - governement has provided the tools. Corrupt people use it to play tricks on their "friends". How about alternative roots? ICANN does censor "XN--55QX5D.", "XN--FIQS8S." and "XN--IO0A7I." already. You must use alternative roots to exchange emails with people living in those domains. Banning open resolvers means censoring for a lot of people, at least if they cannot run their own servers. Regards Peter and Karin Dambier -- Peter and Karin Dambier The Public-Root Consortium Graeffstrasse 14 D-64646 Heppenheim +49(6252)671-788 (Telekom) +49(179)108-3978 (O2 Genion) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter@peter-dambier.de mail: peter@echnaton.serveftp.com http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/