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North Korean Domain Names Return To the Internet
angry tapir writes "North Korean domain names have returned to the Internet over the last few days as the country continues to build its presence online. Websites, previously available only via IP addresses, are now accessible through dot-kp addresses and it appears more might be on the way."
They have achieved DNS technology. To the bunkers everyone!
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
Capitalist oppression.
...or I get a nasty little message telling me not to, here in Seoul. What are they worried about? It's not like looking at webpages that look like they were made in 1994 are going to make me want to cross the border.
They are an unfriendly, communist, totalitarian regime.
Do you mean like China ?
Because we live in the same world?
Pretty easily, at least in this case. The root servers provide these name servers for .kp:
kp. 172800 IN NS ns2.kptc.kp.
kp. 172800 IN NS ns1.kptc.kp.
which are both located on the same class C:
ns1.kptc.kp. 86400 IN A 175.45.176.15
ns2.kptc.kp. 86400 IN A 175.45.176.16
Which generally is indicative of the same network segment. I guess North Korea doesn't have a need for a particularly robust internet infrastructure, so there's a good chance there's just some servers listening on those addresses and no fancy load-balancing or anycast routing going on, and very likely they're at the same physical location.
If either of those stop responding to queries, then resolution of anything under .kp will fail.
TwoGirlsOne.kp?
I guess today is a passable day to die.
Plenty of source material for political satire?
which is totally what she said