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When I was working at Google in 2007 the DNS in China would redirect Google to Baidu every now and then. Can't point fingers at who was making the changes... bu
by sgk284 17y ago
When I was working at Google in 2007 the DNS in China would redirect Google to Baidu every now and then. Can't point fingers at who was making the changes... but it usually coincided with the U.S. doing something China didn't like. Talk about irritating.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if China blocked Google all together, made a clone of Google's UI, and powered searches on Google through Baidu.
- jeromec 17y agoWell, since we control the root servers maybe we can fight fire with fire and have some fun with China. We could randomly allow innocent (to the Chinese govt) sites to be redirected to free speech and human rights activist sites.
- aminuit 17y agoMaking the DNS even more unreliable isn't good for anyone. Also, you're talking about returning an IP that is probably blocked by GFW anyways. So instead of getting the web page for the "innocent (to the Chinese govt)" website, the end user just gets a TCP RST.
- jeromec 17y agoI was joking (mostly), but if we did it I imagine we'd go all the way and host the censored content, changing IPs faster than they could block. They would have to wall us off completely to their people, which is exactly what we'd want.