This DNS over HTTP thing

[jra at baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth)]

----- 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."

Cheers,
-- jra
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