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For calling the FCC out on their lack of technical knowledge I find this quote rather lackluster from the EFF. "Every machine translates IP addresses from mach
by AndyMcConachie 9y ago
For calling the FCC out on their lack of technical knowledge I find this quote rather lackluster from the EFF.
"Every machine translates IP addresses from machine-order to network-order;"
No. Network order is big-endian, and for big-endian architectures there is no translation that occurs.
Also, "As the FCC would have it, an Internet user actively expects their ISP to provide DNS to them."
Yeah, they do. Just because most users don't know what DNS is doesn't mean they don't expect it. They expect their Internet connection to work and part of that is DNS resolution. Come on EFF you can do better than this.
- RandomInteger4 9y agoIsn't that a rather pedantic swipe? How many machines do you know which are still big-endian? DNS resolution is done by your operating system; just because ISPs provide DNS servers doesn't mean that's a service they're solely responsible for considering you can switch DNS servers at any time, with the exception of ISPs who wrongly prohibit such things. In many cases DNS resolution is sped up by changing DNS servers; weird that eh?