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"The worst case scenario here is just a fragmented DNS, and the US losing control of the .com TLD." That is the best case scenario.
by burgerbrain 15y ago
"The worst case scenario here is just a fragmented DNS, and the US losing control of the .com TLD."
That is the best case scenario.
- blhack 15y agoPlease explain your alternate worst-case.
- burgerbrain 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China\ In other words, a reasonably effective implementation that would effect Joe Sixpack. The US is already abusing their alleged jurisdiction over the .com TLD and unfortunately there doesn't yet seem to be a real risk of fragmentation.
- burgerbrain 15y agoSorry, remove that final char to use the link. Not sure how that got on there.
- veyron 15y agoYou can edit the original post ...
- burgerbrain 15y agoI cannot. The time limit ran out by the time I noticed.
- jeroen 15y agoCorrect link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China
- sp332 15y agoBy fragmented DNS, do you just mean distributed? Because DNS is already distributed and consistent. We don't have to trade one to get the other.
- burgerbrain 15y agoI assume he means multiple disagreeing roots under control of different organizations.
- electromagnetic 15y agoNo by fragmented DNS he means DNS servers in Europe would route you perfectly fine to Megavideo.com but US servers wouldn't. So all you'd have to do is change your DNS address to a European one and bingo. It's one thing to pass PATRIOT or SOPA, but try passing legislation to create a multi-billion dollar firewall to effectively block other DNS servers and block offending IP addresses.
- Zirro 15y agoIsn't this already the case for sites that have been "seized" by the ICE?
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- sp332 15y agoBut there's already a DNS "root", so in order to have a split DNS, you'd need to "roots", and two completely separate trees of .com, .org. .us, and .co.uk and everything. There wouldn't be any overlap. You might be able to hack something into some of the DNS zones now to give different answers based on geography, but when DNSSEC or DNS Curve are rolled out, it will break completely.