Neil Brown on nostr

"DNS is the Internet's phone book" This ceased to be a useful analogy many, many years ago!

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 primer for anyone new to this area, but probably still pretty hard going if you are not at familiar with this stuff.

It has no discussion of different types of record, which I found odd in a DNS primer, meaning that this sentence irked me:

> DNS resolution only translates a domain name to the IP address of a web server

Neil Brown · 9w

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...

Andrew Elwell · 9w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq98t8kgwqas59rvmnghzcdn6krzhxhpkyt2mt53e4g9sdnj74sszs6a65q8 without reading the paper and unbound source, is there a DNS equivalent of http status 451? Ie a way of signalling back to the client you're not getting the real answer becase $legal_rea...

Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕ · 9w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqwaxkzn4ulrap2d5qtluxhkl8wcl5lye7y9sg79958s43j9hnssps2ytx5m Mandated DNS blocking is ineffective, harmful, and technically flawed because it undermines the Internet’s security and global interoperability while failing to remove illegal content,...