Re: [LUG] Routing around damage

DNS (which I've interpreted as service but system sounds as good) is a convenient shortcut for a hosts file.

On 22 Mar 2014 10:27, "Martin Gautier" <martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 21/03/14 19:47, bad apple wrote:

On 21/03/14 19:17, Martin Gautier wrote:

On 21/03/14 18:38, Philip Hudson wrote:

.... all of which just goes to show that DNS is a serious bug in the
Internet, not a feature.

What?

DNS is a robust system with features that happen to ensure no one loses
their free speech.

Martin

Indeed, what?

The bits of that sentence I understand I disagree with (robust system?
DNS? ha! Ensure? ha!) and despite parsing it several times, can not for
the life of me figure out how you've conflated Domain Name Resolution
with free speech.

Maybe you mean it in the same way that everyone seems to think that the
Arab Spring was only made possible by Twitter, and not the activists who
actually did it?

Regards

<g>

My thinking. DNS isn't just one database of sites/services, there's a large number of DNS services out there.

If someone decides to remove certain sites from their DNS, you can simply move to a different one.

I know of a number of "creationist" schools in areas of the US that familiar with that have doctored their campus networks to "hide" certain unsavoury truths. By swapping their DNS settings, students were quickly back in the real world.

Yes. I know proper censoring of content involves more than just editing a DNS server. I'm trying, here, to assert that DNS isn't Â"a serious bug in the Internet, not a feature"

>> Maybe you mean it in the same way that everyone seems to think that the Arab Spring was only made possible by Twitter, and not the activists who actually did it?

No.

Martin

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