On Sat, 8 May 2021 13:44:26 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

This blog post is more than a year old, but well worth the read. It may require too much background, but it shows how crucial DNS is to the internet and how it is evolving in scary ways. It opened my eyes. <https://blog.apnic.net/2019/11/04/dns-wars/>

And, there are additional dimensions to some of the issues raised in the above post. Political changes to BIND, is one of the reasons I left almost a decade ago. The general support for enabling walled gardens and "custom" responses in open source communities by actually adding code to a project, is, imnsho, simply wrong. There are many other DNS issues not raised in this post, one obvious example is that the overwhelming and vast majority of normal users simply "searches" on GOOGLE for https://example.com - and depending on "GOOGLE policy of that day" (as this changes) - users are either directly redirtected to https://example.com - or users are shown "search" results...(as, of course the user is "searching" because the software vendors, a lot of the time the search engine itself, has designed their software in this fashion as they want to control and own every bit traveling on the wire. The "new" path Firefox is on, is so wrong. I can write a LOT more about this, but it is upsetting and emotional for myself. it is like driving past a traffic accident, there are bodies in the road. I know I must not look, I know I must not look, I know I should not look, o sh*t. I looked.

APNIC is the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre. It it the organization that assigns IP addresses for the Asia-Pacific region.

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