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First shot in a global salvo against ICANN?
(old news - 01:12PM Tuesday Feb 28 2006)
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Last year there was ample criticism of ICANN by foreign countries, who suggested that the organization was far too America-Centric. Some wanted to see a new ITU supported coalition formed for Internet governance, though others (like China & Turkey) proposed more drastic measures. China tomorrow will launch their own DNS system, with three temporary top level domains, (.CN, .Com and .Net) that will be available only via Chinese networks. Chinese users will be routed directly through the Chinese domestic analysis server, bypassing ICANN entirely.

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SilenceGold
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hack the planet!

First step toward accomplishment of "hack the planet!"
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Re: hack the planet!

said by SilenceGold See Profile :

First step toward accomplishment of "hack the planet!"
How dare them? We should be the ones 'hacking the planet'

SilenceGold
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Re: hack the planet!

We just beat them...so they're just trying to unmonopoly the current DNS system.

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Re: hack the planet!

So much for using voip in China.
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Re: hack the planet!

I'm not sure that it will make a huge difference to VOIP. China is probably going to mirror standard DNS data for the most part and then start deleting or reassigning DNS assignments they don't like. Right now (or at least yesterday), China was blocking IP addresses of sites they don't like.

What is going to get wierd will be if China decides to start reselling domain names, e.g. cnn becoming China NEtwork NEws, etc.

As to VOIP more specifically, I think that will continue to remain a cat and mouse game. Don't, however, underestimate the resourcefulness of the Chineese people. I'm in Hong Kong at the moment and was at a computer centre earlier in the week. Technology was being openly sold designed at tunnelling under the Great Firewall in use in the mainland. (Hong Kong's internet is wide open). Most of the stuff they were selling (I only glanced casually) appeared to have been made in the mainland, (e.g. tunnelling routers, etc.).

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They do this because the major ISP's have spam blocks on the whole China IP range. So they want to create there own DNS trying to make a statement to DE-centralize the whole process and make a statement doing so.

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China tomorrow will launch their own DNS system, with three temporary top level domains, (.CN, .Com and .Net) that will be available only via Chinese networks. Chinese users will be routed directly through the Chinese domestic analysis server, bypassing ICANN entirely.
An excellent idea. The Chinese government realizes that unrestricted access to the internet by its citizens is harmful to its citizens.

On the other hand, I wonder if adding those entries to my firewall rules and hosts file will serve any purpose.
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Bravo, brave

"China tomorrow will launch their own DNS system,"

Once again, if you don't like what you are getting for free, do it yourself

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Re: Bravo, brave

"Once again, if you don't like what you are getting for free, do it yourself"

Not all DNS servers are in the US....not even half are...
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Good luck with that!

What exactly is a "Chinese domestic analysis server"?

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Re: Good luck with that!

said by dcurrey See Profile :

What exactly is a "Chinese domestic analysis server"?
If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
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Re: Good luck with that!

said by furlonium See Profile :

said by dcurrey See Profile :

What exactly is a "Chinese domestic analysis server"?
If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
Kinda like what the Bush admin is doing

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Re: Good luck with that!

said by Okman See Profile :

said by furlonium See Profile :

said by dcurrey See Profile :

What exactly is a "Chinese domestic analysis server"?
If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
Kinda like what the Bush admin is doing
Hmmmm.. Not bad.. The political bashing started pretty quick..
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Re: Good luck with that!

said by ropeguru See Profile :

Hmmmm.. Not bad.. The political bashing started pretty quick..
I thought it would have started out in a top post.
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said by Okman See Profile :

said by furlonium See Profile :

said by dcurrey See Profile :

What exactly is a "Chinese domestic analysis server"?
If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
Kinda like what the Bush admin is doing
Hmmm...according to you, Bush should have blocked your post and put you in jail, just like China. After all, it is subversive to the Bush dictatorship.

Or are you confusing the MPAA/RIAA paid congress with the executive branch?
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Re: Good luck with that!

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Or are you confusing the MPAA/RIAA paid congress with the executive branch?
YES!!!

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said by RayW See Profile :

Hmmm...according to you, Bush should have blocked your post and put you in jail, just like China. After all, it is subversive to the Bush dictatorship.

Or are you confusing the MPAA/RIAA paid congress with the executive branch?
Wow. From bashing China, to bashing the U.S. government, to bashing the entertainment industry. I wonder if Godwin could ever have anticipated this. I also wonder how much further the thread needs to go before Godwin's law comes into effect.

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Re: Good luck with that!

Yes, I'm still waiting for that gratuitous Hitler reference...
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Re: Good luck with that!

You damn nazi.

(there, we can all sleep now).
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Re: Good luck with that!

Dang! Now I don't have a reason to follow the thread...

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Re: Good luck with that!

said by AthlGrond See Profile :

Dang! Now I don't have a reason to follow the thread...
It doesn't count if you do it for the purpose of invoking Godwins law.
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You better watch yourself or Chuck Norris will kill you.

There, now the thread has Bush, China, **AA, and Chuck Norris. Now this thread should be locked.
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Re: Good luck with that!

Heh...and we got the obligatory Ted Kennedy reference too.
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Re: Good luck with that!

Chinese Government slam - Check
Bush Administration slam - Check
Congress being bought - Check
RIAA/MPAA doing the buying - Check
Vietnam oppressive - Check
Iran too - Check
Dick Cheney shoots hunters - Check
Nazi/Hilter reference - Check
Ted Kennedy controversy - Check
Chuck Norris reference - Check to the head

Now all we need is:

- Paris Hilton vapid remark
- Liberals/Conservatives bashing
- Bill Clinton's fickle pickle
- Dubai buying American ports
- Britney and Cletus...er... Kevin Federline
- ILEC/CLEC bashing
- Property Taxes
- 9/11 and/or terrorists (or Iraq since it's always on the same subject)

C'mon everybody!! Lets make this the thread every moderator fears!

Combat Chuck
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Re: Good luck with that!

said by SRFireside See Profile :

Chinese Government slam - Check
Bush Administration slam - Check
Congress being bought - Check
RIAA/MPAA doing the buying - Check
Vietnam oppressive - Check
Iran too - Check
Dick Cheney shoots hunters - Check
Nazi/Hilter reference - Check
Ted Kennedy controversy - Check
Chuck Norris reference - Check to the head

Now all we need is:

- Paris Hilton vapid remark
- Liberals/Conservatives bashing
- Bill Clinton's fickle pickle
- Dubai buying American ports
- Britney and Cletus...er... Kevin Federline
- ILEC/CLEC bashing
- Property Taxes
- 9/11 and/or terrorists (or Iraq since it's always on the same subject)

C'mon everybody!! Lets make this the thread every moderator fears!
Wow, after all of that, all you need is Maury Povich getting a show on a cable news network and you'll have all the signs that the end of the world has begun.
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oh crap
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Paris hilton is is a liberal commy scum, who was busy watching billy boy get his bj while dubai made the plans to start buying our us ports. My only hope is k fed and britney produce a rap record Bashing Verizon for being a sick vapid money hungry company who' fios and digging is driving up my property taxes..... And damn it its all a plot by osama and the iraqi insurgents to try and take over the world!!!!!

Did i come close ?
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Re: Good luck with that!

said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Did i come close ?


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Re: Good luck with that!

Vin Diesel approves of the star.

We're missing some more...
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Re: Good luck with that!

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Vin Diesel approves of the star.

We're missing some more...
How can we forget...

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said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Did i come close ?
Gee thanks...now I gotta go find an umbrella that can handle brimstone. Jerk.
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said by SRFireside See Profile :

said by RayW See Profile :

Hmmm...according to you, Bush should have blocked your post and put you in jail, just like China. After all, it is subversive to the Bush dictatorship.

Or are you confusing the MPAA/RIAA paid congress with the executive branch?
Wow. From bashing China, to bashing the U.S. government, to bashing the entertainment industry. I wonder if Godwin could ever have anticipated this. I also wonder how much further the thread needs to go before Godwin's law comes into effect.
Actually, if you would read the note, I was pointing out that if Bush really was as dictatorial as China's leaders like the poster posting as okman thinks, then he (
said by Okman See Profile :

said by furlonium See Profile :

If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
Kinda like what the Bush admin is doing
) would be in jail. But since we have not heard of that happening...........
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»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

(For those who don't know what it is)
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Re: Good luck with that!

I swear I learn something new every day.

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said by RayW See Profile :

Hmmm...according to you, Bush should have blocked your post and put you in jail, just like China. After all, it is subversive to the Bush dictatorship.
Hmmm. Don't speak too soon. Okman seems to have disappeared without a trace!
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here we go.....
If you feel censorship is so bad here than move to China, Vietnam or Iran and see how well you can bitch about your leaders there. I mean really, you don't know how good you have it here in the US.

I mean I know life is tough here with all of the political freedoms like free speech, freedom of religion and right to posses fire arms. I also know it can be a little troubling not living under a martial military type dictatorship where the government's goons will come make you disappear. I also understand your plight living in a society that practices due process and law and trial by jury to ensure you get a fair chance for justice. I mean I really feel bad for the fact that you don't have to undergo compulsory service in the military and it's a volunteer force and that you can protest anywhere you want even in front of the Nation's Capitol without being run over by Army tanks.

America does suck...low taxes, low unemployment, capitalist society where I can read the Bible, Koran or Penthouse without being persecuted by religious police. Another thing that gets me going is this whole I can elect my officials by going to the polls and voting is awful too, I mean why can't my leaders be picked for me where I have no say in how the government is run at all?


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Re: Good luck with that!

said by bentman78 See Profile :

here we go.....
If you feel censorship is so bad here than move to China, Vietnam or Iran and see how well you can bitch about your leaders there. I mean really, you don't know how good you have it here in the US.
It never fails. Whenever someone posts anything that dissents/questions authority/points out issues or problems they have with the way things are happening in the USA.... someone always has to reply with the low-brow response of "If you don't like it, you should move to Cuba/China/North Korea/Iran/Iraq/Zimbabwe/any other random country/blah blah blah.

I'm sure glad we have people here in the USA who still question what the Government (and others!) are up to! That's a requirement of a free country if you ask me.
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Re: Good luck with that!

said by KrK See Profile :

I'm sure glad we have people here in the USA who still question what the Government (and others!) are up to! That's a requirement of a free country if you ask me.
I wouldn't exactly call someone who when backed into a corner fires off:

quote:
Kinda like what the Bush admin is doing
outta the blue for no real reason with no real support of his argument as a patriot freedom fighter, risking his life questioning the government.

That was blatant mindless Bush bashing plain and simple. The reply to it was simply a stupid reaction to the stupid statement.

I don't embrace or defend the people with stupid arguments who happen to have wound up on my side of the issue; I don't know why you guys do.
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bentman78
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Re: Good luck with that!

I believe it's called BDS...

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said by Okman See Profile :

Kinda like what the Bush admin is doing
Heh... looks like we found Dick Cheney's next hunting partner!
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Re: Good luck with that!

"Heh... looks like we found Dick Cheney's next hunting partner!"

I would rather hunt Quail with Cheney then go for a ride with Ted Kennedy.

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Re: Good luck with that!

said by JKonline See Profile :

"Heh... looks like we found Dick Cheney's next hunting partner!"

I would rather hunt Quail with Cheney then go for a ride with Ted Kennedy.
Of course. Cheney is stupid and similis simile gaudet... :D

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Re: Good luck with that!

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said by JKonline See Profile :

I would rather hunt Quail with Cheney then go for a ride with Ted Kennedy.
Of course. Cheney is stupid and similis simile gaudet... :D
Ted Kennedy kills people when he drives.
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said by furlonium See Profile :

If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they just plug in the IP into whatever they wish to browse, rather than the full web address?

DNS resolves names, ie. broadbandreports.com , into IP addresses. If you had the hard IP of a server you wished to access outside of China (assuming it's not blocked), wouldn't it bring you there? (again, assuming someone's not on their Intranet w/ the same IP)
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Re: Good luck with that!

I was thinking something very similar.
I thought an IP address was unique where DNS simply resolves names in to unique IP's.

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Re: Good luck with that!

said by averagedude See Profile :

I was thinking something very similar.
I thought an IP address was unique where DNS simply resolves names in to unique IP's.
But, how are you gonna get the IP address without DNS. It's not impossible, but a lot harder.
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Re: Good luck with that!

I think they may also run into problems with sites that use third party load balancing services.

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said by furlonium See Profile :

said by dcurrey See Profile :

What exactly is a "Chinese domestic analysis server"?
If they don't like what you're attempting to access it, you won't.
In other words, the Great Firewall of China
MCheu

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It means that when you plug in something like »:/www.whatever.com into your browser in China, your ISP's DNS tables will be based on China's domestic ones that have been sanitized by the government. You can do some really scary things with something like this. For example, if you want to lock out a foreign company from e-business in your country, you redirect all requests for www.amazon.com to a domestic bookstore. If you find a site that regularly bad mouths your country, have the DNS entry redirect to a government run site. Maybe just the usual 404 error message, or if you want to be really creative, have your people create a site that's a visual clone of the original, but YOU control the content. All of a sudden, Amnesty International thinks China's doing a bang up job of dealing with political prisoners.

This isn't even a new idea. Corporate intranets with external internet access do this a fair bit, only on a smaller scale. Request a corporate site, and you get faster access because it's being served from a local machine in the building instead of the online one that everyone else sees. Request something inappropriate and it's blocked -- cuts down on employees checking out porn and online poker on company time.

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Re: Good luck with that!

I wouldn't use "bang up" to describe what they're doing to prisoners, or maybe that's just me.

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Question

I am by no means an expert on DNS, so I have a general question - that some of the more knowledgeable people on this forum might laugh at. But regardless of the ridicule I might get, I am curious - if China is doing there own DNS and according to the article linked to, using .EDU, .MIL, .COM and other current top level domains - if a person in China was to register and existing .COM name (like BBR for example) - how does that work? Will China basically cut internet access to non-Chinese site creating in essence a giant INTRANET? Or am I completely misunderstanding the technicalities of how this works?

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I commend China....

hopefully Europe will join China. Will be good for the rest of the World.

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Monitor?

Wouldn't this be another step by China to monitor it's on population?

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China just want more control to censure.

China's government wants more control of the internet to censure the websites that it deems not good to the Communist party.
So by creating their OWN DNS, the government will have total control on the websites.

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oh STOP the Chinese bashing!!!

they have over 1 billion people, and they are a growing power, and you feeble people can hate them all you want, but recognize that there is a whole new world asides from the States and if you dont like it, then don't enter. Simple, no?

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Ok then...

What do I have to do to have my domain censored. If servers in China can't resolve my Mx record, I recon I would get a lot less spam.
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So let them, but don't help.

China wants the many benefits of an open Internet while placing massive restrictions on what their populace can access. So they should be allowed to create their own country specific Internet. At which point, the world wide Internet should just shut down feeds into China.

Just on general principles, you shouldn't be able to benefit from open information services while simultaneously shunning open information.

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Re: So let them, but don't help.

Well said Jpark...

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said by jpark See Profile :

So they should be allowed to create their own country specific Internet. At which point, the world wide Internet should just shut down feeds into China.
I wish. Not to mention China has THE dirtiest networks of any country in the world. Everything from DoS attacks, phishing/spam, proxy abuse, etc. You name it and it runs wild over there targeting US networks. Wanna see some proof?
»isc.sans.org/top10.php
Check that every couple days, see where the majority of the AS's are located.
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Re: So let them, but don't help.

said by bky See Profile :

I wish. Not to mention China has THE dirtiest networks of any country in the world. Everything from DoS attacks, phishing/spam, proxy abuse, etc. You name it and it runs wild over there targeting US networks. Wanna see some proof?
»isc.sans.org/top10.php
Check that every couple days, see where the majority of the AS's are located.
I have proof in my logs. All port scans blocked by my firewall in the last 3-4 months have all resolved back to a Chinese ISP. Lucky for me its been a very small range of IP address and after sending my logs to RoadRunner, I've surprisingly had a major drop in port scans.

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Disagreeing with Chinese government policy is one thing.
Punishing the good people of China or further restricting their access to information by shutting down "feeds into China" would be aiding the very government policies I disagree with.
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Re: So let them, but don't help.

It might also serve to get the Chinese people to effect change.
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Google, Ebay, MSN, Yahoo, AOL,..etc

can't be happy if chinese kiddies can't access their sites because .COM is now re-routed. It won't be long before these big boys will put pressure on ICAAN to change. American businesses will not want to be shut out of the growing Chinese online market. I think it's only a matter of time before ICAAN goes the path of T-rex.
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Re: Google, Ebay, MSN, Yahoo, AOL,..etc

Actually they already have deals with the Chinese Government so they will continue as normal. It will just be easier for their search engines to be censored.
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The Horror.

So now the rest of the world will start developing technology without being dependent on the ICANN.... Oh the horror, the communist are going to rule the world again????..... Fellow Americans, enough having both eyes blind, we have stayed behind far to long stumping our feet on the whim of corporations and a government who's not willing to commit to a true plan that will keep the US in the front line of innovation & information technology.

just like sputnik, maybe this move by china and other countries to follow would be a sufficient reason for the US to get our A** going again on the path of technology;).

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Control of the web?

Hmmmm... Control of web sites with DNS?

If it's to control inappropriate servers from being accessed from China, that's gonna work for what? A month?

Simply punch in the IP address of the site, and voila!

Unless they want to put firewalls all around China too?

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Re: Control of the web?

Simply punch in the IP address of the site, and voila!
Explain how they works in what is fundamentally a contained intranet? The point is to put "firewalls" all around China. At least, that's my guess.

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A couple of problems with this.

1. I don't know what the stats are but my guess is most website use shared hosting. 1 ip may have 1000+ domains assigned to it.

2. If you can't do a dns lookup on a domain you can't get the ip anyway.

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join:2001-07-13
Albany, NY

The "China DNS System" will stop most people from accessing "bad" websites (where bad is defined by the Chinese Communist Party). For the stranglers, they have the "Great Firewall of China." So you might visit a "grey market" site and obtain the IP addresses of a popular, but banned, site, but you'd likely find that IP address blocked before long. (And the grey market site either a) pressured to rein in the IP address posts, b) shut down, or c) blocked.)
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izy
Premium,MVM
join:2000-09-21
Naples, FL

Register Domain

Where can I request a domain with the Chinese?

I would like to register.... JintaoGivesGreat.bj
Talis

join:2001-06-21
Houston, TX

The real issue

All of you are missing the really heinous aspect of this entire thing. The DNS system relies on there being one top-level DNS for each domain - the root server. China is now creating their own .COM root, separate from the .COM root used by the rest of the world. Now you will never know whether an address will resolve or not. If someone tells you to go to pandas.com it may or may not take you where the person wanted you to go.

Yes, the censorship is an issue, but the TLD issue is much more serious to the integrity of the Internet.

RR73

@dasyp.com

Censorship

Basicly the whole ICANN situation is just an excuse China is using to do this. They are not only setting up their own root servers, but they are using existing TLDs, this is just a way for them to censor the Internet withing their country. And, yes, I do agree that news and information is censored here (USA) and every other country, but China takes in to an entirely new level. They aren't just cutting out ICANN, they are cutting out the entire world.
DSL Oberst

join:2001-11-29

Valid Question

Why are we worried about what China is/is not doing?
It's been pointed out that they're Communists - which, if you actually study them, they're not Communists but mere common socialists - and that they do not have a 'free society'. Ok. They don't. Neither does Myanmar, several of the -stan countries, many countries in Africa, a couple in Sudamerica, etc.
What, should we now invade China to bring freedom and democracy to them as well? What about North Korea while we're at it?
China can make laws stating that everyone needs to paint themselves purple with gold spots every alternate Wednesday. If they want what is essentially their special private internet, I don't have a problem with it. Their country; if they don't like it they can have a revolution, much like they did against the Western powers that screwed them up in the first place back in the 1800s and early 1900s.
Oh. That's right. We forgot about Chiang Kai-shek and his dictatorship. Ooops!
This is NON-NEWS. If we want to bitch about it, then let's get the tanks ready. Otherwise, we need to sit down, shrug, and let them continue their merry way.
Okman

join:2001-10-01
92714

Let's send our "Boys" over to liberate China?

i mean someone has to save those poor chinese souls from themselves, right?

all talk, no actions, eh?

whfsdude
Premium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC

Chinese Spam

At least I won't get anymore spam from China
jdir

join:2001-05-04
Santa Clara, CA

Cool - now we can have duplicate address

Just think - some fool will connect their network and our network and someday when I click on yahoo.com I'll get egg_foo_yung.com and someday I'll get yahoo.com
raythompsontn

join:2001-01-11
Oliver Springs, TN

Re: Cool - now we can have duplicate address

said by jdir See Profile :

Just think - some fool will connect their network and our network and someday when I click on yahoo.com I'll get egg_foo_yung.com and someday I'll get yahoo.com
No, not qoing to happen.

All the DNS servers that you will use will point to some other DNS server, then to some other DNS server, and eventually get to the ICANN top level DNS server.

For China all of their DNS servers will point to some other DNS server, etc. which will eventually point to China's top level DNS server.

I run my own DNS server for my internal sites. All DNS requests resolve to my DNS server. If my DNS server cannot find the name, the request is sent to an outside DNS server, in this case UT. If UT cannot resolve the DNS request they sent it to who knows where. Eventually a DNS server is located in the tree that has the information. This DNS server may very well be the ICANN top level DNS server. It most certainly will never be a DNS server in China.

As long as no DNS server outside of China points to any DNS server in China, then the name resolution will not be a problem. China effectively becomes a large private network, like what I have only larger, and all DNS requests stay within China.

In effect each country could run their own DNS server and really control what their people are exposed to on the internet. It is a pain and pointless if you want to expand beyond your own country. But China does not want outside influence and this will effectively block getting information from outside of China.
DrData
Premium
join:2004-12-31
Apopka, FL
·Embarq

"Just think - some fool will connect their network and our network and someday when I click on yahoo.com I'll get egg_foo_yung.com and someday I'll get yahoo.com"

Perhaps if your in China, but not US internet networks or global internet networks.

China will basically be creating and operating an "intranet" with restricted access to the global internet.

I think China do what they want, but they crossed the line by trying to underhand the set global standards by interfering with set top level domains like .com, they should be shunned.
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