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Re: Blocking International DNS
From: Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:02:35 -0500
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:57:40 pm Mark Andrews wrote:
And there would have been total confusion if there had been multiple uunet's and a few other well known nodes. UUCP had anchor points. Just different ones to the DNS.
Yeah, and with virtually everyone's bangpaths starting with uunet or one of those other anchors (I seem to rememer bangpaths starting at kremvax, but perhaps I'm senile...), it's still a hierarchy. I had a site in the maps years ago, and even had 'registered' a pseudo '.uucp' domain.... remember those? That said, it did work pretty well. SMTP and direct MX was supposed to make all that go away, and now we're talking about it again. Do I need to go back to using smail 2.5 to do mail routing? :-) Web browsing using uucico was rather, uh, interesting (but doable, thanks to the virtually text-only web at the time, and that assumed the target node/server was online at that time). Not really scalable to broadband, as part of the blockability issue is IP and IP routing hijackability (to coin a contrived phrase). It was a different world, especially on the user side. If you had multiple dialin accounts under the uucp system you could very easily bypass many blocks simply using dialup; but dialup is just too slow for today's content.
Current thread:
- Re: Blocking International DNS, (continued)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Marshall Eubanks (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Jorge Amodio (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Dobbins, Roland (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Randy Bush (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Jorge Amodio (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Jeff Johnstone (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Mark Andrews (Dec 01)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Lamar Owen (Dec 02)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Randy Bush (Dec 02)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Jorge Amodio (Dec 02)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Randy Bush (Dec 02)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Ingo Flaschberger (Dec 02)
- Re: Blocking International DNS Lamar Owen (Dec 02)
- wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS) Ken Chase (Dec 02)
- Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS) Jorge Amodio (Dec 02)
- Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS) Ken Chase (Dec 02)
- Wikileaks moved to cave bunker in Iran, Mr. Assange reportedly offered asylum by North Korea... Joe Greco (Dec 03)
- Re: Wikileaks moved to cave bunker in Iran, Mr. Assange reportedly offered asylum by North Korea... Jorge Amodio (Dec 03)