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Beating Censorship By Routing Around DNS

Posted by timothy on from the fake-left-break-right dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Last month, the US gov't shut down a number of sites it claimed were infringing copyright. They did it by ordering VeriSign to change the sites' authoritative domain name servers. This revealed that DNS is subject to government interference — and now a number of projects have emerged to bypass DNS entirely."

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  1. Re:Get back in your Free Speech Zone by kilfarsnar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/monsanto-vs-milkman Give it a read.

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  2. Re:how is it censorship? by silas_moeckel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Completely clean? The companies are not run out of the US. Would it be illegal buy a billboard and put come to something that's illegal in your is legal here? By that logic the Indian casinos should not be able to advertise outside of there res since gambling is generally not legal elsewhere? Should we seize there domain names?

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  3. What about the reverse zone? by DeadBeef · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about putting an A or AAAA record in a reverse DNS zone, so your site ends up looking like http://2.0.192.in-addr.arpa/ or whatever. There is no registry involved with the delegation of those reverse zones, so it would be alot more difficult for anyone to interfere with it.

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  4. How about a lazier solution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All this P2P and encoding crap, but nobody thinks to simply archive the last valid result!

    I call it the WHOIS Wayback Machine. If you think a particular site is at risk, submit it to all the WWMs you know of and let them do a lookup every week or so and permanently archive the results. When a domain get seized, look up the last valid IP, edit your HOSTS file, go to the site, and update your bookmarks with the new URL.

    This could also be done locally for sites you frequently visit. Anyone want to code the browser extension? Heck, it's probably already been done.