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Neil Brown · 3w
I've just read the Internet Society's new paper on DNS blocking, aimed at lawyers. https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mandated-DNS-Blocking-Full-Paper.pdf It is a reasonable ...
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Now, I appreciate that this example is using both a domain name and an IP address intended for documentation:

> DNS translates human-readable
names (such as “example.com”) into IP addresses (e.g., 203.0.113.42)

But, in context, would it not have made sense to use the actual IP address from the A/AAAA record for example.com, to avoid confusing anyone playing along at home?
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Neil Brown · 3w
(If one runs `dig +short example.com A`, one will get `104.18.27.120`, not `203.0.113.42`.)
I love this, so I · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq98t8kgwqas59rvmnghzcdn6krzhxhpkyt2mt53e4g9sdnj74sszs6a65q8 not necessarily, as what example dot com resolves to today may not be what it resolves to tomorrow when your audience reads what you have written, or it may not resolve to the same addre...