Hello. Erika's mention of the need "to decrease the gap in the dialogue between governments and the technical community" and a current thread on the bind-users mailing list made me wonder whether the report I mention in the message below is as well known as I think it deserves to be outside the DNS technical community and certain parts of the wider French Internet community. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly Begin forwarded message:
From: Niall O'Reilly <Niall.oReilly@ucd.ie> Date: 30 October 2013 10:16:26 GMT To: bind-check@telenet.be Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: use bind 9.8 as caching server and authoritative nameserver message-id: <80951A6D-89DE-4C4B-A6DB-B4516EDFA9D9@ucd.ie>
On 28 Oct 2013, at 13:10, bind-check@telenet.be wrote:
Recently our government obligated all ISP's to block access to child-porn, illegal betting sites, illegal file share sites etc... I have been asked now to implement this on our caching DNS servers (serve a custom zone to all of our customers that points to an IP from the government that hosts a block-page)
You probably understand that this approach is of limited effectiveness, and has arguably significant disadvantages.
It may be of interest for you to read the report mentioned at either of the following URIs (in French, English respectively).
http://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/6573/... http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6584/show/the-afnic-sci...
Best regards,
Niall O'Reilly Member of AFNIC's Conseil Scientifique
PS. I wan't a significant contributor to this report. Credit for that belongs to the colleagues who did the work. /Niall