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You're really stuck on assuming it's a latency concern, but that was never the issue - it's the fiction I mentioned earlier. > Russia does not do this. That’d
by inopinatus 5y ago
You're really stuck on assuming it's a latency concern, but that was never the issue - it's the fiction I mentioned earlier.
> Russia does not do this. That’d be a completely separate issue
Russia already does this. They literally made a law enabling it, a couple of years ago, and then ran a live test in the middle of 2021. Look up "sovereign internet bill". Aside from the great-firewall-wannabe provisions, it specifically enables a Kremlin-controlled fork of the DNS.
And yes, it's all there in Bill's remarks. I suggest reading them.
- rosndo 5y agoRussia set laws to do this, Russia is not actively doing this, Roskomnadzor is capable of doing this at any time. All of the above are true. I guess I’m the only one of us that actually works with this stuff in Russia on a regular basis. Removing root nameservers from RF would have zero real-world impact unless the RF government decided to take additional actions after that.
- inopinatus 5y agoI haven't been back in Russia since 1991. That was another interesting year for infrastructure, to be sure. But on this day in history I would not bet against the likelihood of an Iron Curtain descending once more.