This DNS over HTTP thing

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Oct 4 00:52:59 UTC 2019


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog at bakker.net>

> * jra at baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) [Wed 02 Oct 2019, 23:21 CEST]:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog at bakker.net>
>>
>>> * 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?

*I* wasn't proposing any solutions to any problems, at that particular
twist, Neils, as I thought was obvious.

Cheers,
-- jra
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