Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

["Geoff Down" <geoffdown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:29 -0600, "Scott Bennett" <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>      On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:17:20 +0000 "Geoff Down"
>      <geoffdown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:05 -0600, "Jon" <torance.ca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >     I wrote:
> >> >>http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/05/us-censors-muslim-websites-list-of-british-mps-who-supported-iraq-war/
> >> >>
> >> >>     Using exit "chuckthecanuck" gives a Google (!) error page, saying URL
> >> >>not found.  I'll add that exit to my ExcludeExitNodes list with a comment
> >> >>that the reason is due to DNS hijacking that is probably related to U.S.
> >> >>censorship.
> >> >
> >> >     I changed my mind.  I'm adding {ca},{uk},{us} to my ExcludeExitNodes
> >> > list with an appropriate comment for later removal in case the U.S. ever
> >> > calls off its War on the Internet. :-(
> >> >
> >> >
> >>  I don't understand why excluding all exit nodes from the US, CA, and
> >> UK, especially if you have only one exit node showing the error?
> >> Altho, I may not understand or I misinterpreted your email
> >> 
> >> I had no issues with getting the website on google. I had to copy and
> >> paste the url as it would not go directly from the email. Actually,
> >> almost all the url's lately from the email;s don't go directly, I have
> >> to cut and paste to get to them.
> >> 
> >> Jon
> >> 
> >The OP is presumably saying that the domain refered to in the
> >antiwar.com story is unreachable, not antiwar.com itself.
> >That's because it's been suspended by the registrar: tor-resolve returns
> >no IP for it and the .com root server reports that no such domain
> >exists. There may be cached entries floating around though.
> >
>      Actually, before posting my original note, I had used tor-resolve to
> look for an IP address, and it quickly returned 74.125.93.121.  Doing a
> reverse lookup of that address (also with tor-resolve -x) returned not
> the
> original name but rather qw-in-f121.1e100.net.  Plugging either the IP
> address or the latter name into the URL got me the same Google error
> page.
>      Now, however, tor-resolve on the original name returns
> [warn] Got SOCKS5 status response '4': host is unreachable
> but the reverse lookup still gives the name shown above.

Both domain 1e100.net and IP 74.125.93.121 beong to Google - hence the
Google error message. Whether the censored domain was originally hosted
there, or the DNS record was temporarily changed before deletion, I
couldn't say.
GD

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