This DNS over HTTP thing

Thu Oct 3 08:44:47 UTC 2019

* jra at baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) [Wed 02 Oct 2019, 23:21 CEST]:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog at bakker.net>
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 1:42:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: This DNS over HTTP thing
>
>> * jra at baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) [Wed 02 Oct 2019, 19:30 CEST]:
>>>> From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood at comcast.com>
>>>> What many people dismiss as 'lying' would be typically described as 'complying
>>>> with the law' in certain countries. It is unfortunate that operators in
>>>> countries with legally-mandated DNS blocks are criticized for the actions they
>>>> have no option but to undertake. IMO any such criticisms should more correctly
>>>> be directed at the laws themselves or the governments that put them in place.
>>>
>>>HTTP/451
>>
>> Completely different protocol than what the rest of this thread is
>> about, much more invasive wrt possibility of logging, and requires
>> a lot more infrastructure and actual lying in DNS to make work.
>
>Closed captioned for the analogy-impaired:
>
>"The idea you're talking about, Jason, is analogous to that embodied in
>the 451 error code in HTTP."

Oh, you weren't proposing a technical solution to a social problem?

	-- Niels.