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Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by stephens_chris »

charlesdm wrote: post #22
k__ wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What websites they have? airkoryo.com.kp. cooks.org.kp. // receips are important friend.com.kp. // facebook clone? :D gnu.rep.kp. // yay at least their software is free kass.org.kp. kcna.kp. kiyctc.com.kp. knic.com.kp. koredufund.org.kp. korelcfund.org.kp. korfilm.com.kp. // movie4k clone at least there it is legal, lol ma.gov.kp. masikryong.com.kp. naenara.com.kp. nta.gov.kp. portal.net.kp. // yahoo clone ;) rcc.net…

> korfilm.com.kp. That 1990s style animated banner.. THE PYONGYANG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. I bet a ton of celebs visit that!

The Kim family has always placed a high priority on making movies. I believe it started out as a propaganda angle, as it has been in most communist countries (well...anywhere, really) and has sense moved onto full on fandom. The DPRK spends a good chunk of change on film production. Kim Jong-Il went so far as to kidnap a South Korean film director and actress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_North_Korea

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

jbg_ wrote: post #37
jwr wrote: post #9

I find it amazing that you can actually read (yourself) all of the content of all the toplevel DNS zones of a country. In 2016. Two subdomains in .edu.

What do you mean by "In 2016"? This is by design...

The interesting parts are not by design. Yes, you can query the server, that's the expected behavior. But:

1. It's not normal to allow global zone transfers on most country-code nameservers, which enables other Internet users to get the full list of registered domains. Yes, some do it: https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer/TLDR/blob/master/READ...

2. It's not normal for the list of all the domains registered to a TLD to be readable by a human in a short timeframe. If you could get a list of all .com or .co.uk domains, you probably could not read all the domains which start with 'aa', much less the complete list.

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by navbaker »

soylentcola wrote: post #57
runholm wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their pictogram of a phone in 2016 is a rotary phone.

Sure, but while not quite the same level, my voicemail icon is a reel-to-reel tape and lots of "save" icons are floppy disks.

My wife and I occasionally wonder if our one year old will think we're crazy when we talk about "taping" a show.

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by itsnotlupus »

jason_slack wrote: post #51
madaxe_again wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That their intranet/internet is apparently pretty small, comprising only a few dozen domains, run off five Nameservers. Also cooks.org.kp. I really want to go to the Facing grand slam popular restaurant , previously the Flavour bases loaded restaurant , but they're really embracing their new name apparently. http://cooks.org.kp/restaurants.php?rID=21

Sorry, I need a little more explanation. Are you saying that North Korea would otherwise be keeping these domains out of sight from users that aren't in North Korea? So now that these domains are out there anyone can view them and lurk/spy/gather info?

You'd need to know those domains exist to resolve them.

This unusual (mis-) configuration allowed to enumerate those domains exhaustively.

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by lisper »

mikeash wrote: post #53
wuschel wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I hope for the head of the NK chief propaganda minister that the grand divine dictator's internet does not break down with all the traffic from Hacker News.. "Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Sohae Space Centre to inspect the ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of…

It should remind you of that, since that's basically what they are. They're on the wrong side of Russia to be in the Warsaw Pact, but they follow the same basic model as other Soviet puppets, except for the part where they succumbed to revolution in the 90s.

NK is not a Russian puppet, it's a Chinese puppet. (And it's a puppet gone rogue like Chucky.)

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by soundwave106 »

wuschel wrote: post #44
benedikt wrote: post #19

Slightly related, I ran nmap scans on the known NK internet for a while. The data can be found here: https://github.com/benediktkr/nk-scans

Well, I hope for the head of the NK chief propaganda minister that the grand divine dictator's internet does not break down with all the traffic from Hacker News.. "Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Sohae Space Centre to inspect the ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of…

I'm actually am having trouble accessing any of these NK sites at the moment. Verified that several sites are down at isitdownrightnow as well.

Could be many things, of course. But if Hacker News traffic is enough to overload an entire country's Internet...

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by mikeash »

lisper wrote: post #67
mikeash wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should remind you of that, since that's basically what they are. They're on the wrong side of Russia to be in the Warsaw Pact, but they follow the same basic model as other Soviet puppets, except for the part where they succumbed to revolution in the 90s.

NK is not a Russian puppet, it's a Chinese puppet. (And it's a puppet gone rogue like Chucky.)

They are now, but they were aligned with the Soviets until there stopped being Soviets. Naturally they sought out a new patron after that.

Re: Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

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Post by wongarsu »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #54

And we're not helping 25 million prisoners escape from this starvation cult run by a megalomaniac child because? 1) China would get mad 2) No one would want the refugees 3) There's no will to help people you largely can't see 4) After deposing the Kim regime no one knows how to nation build while avoiding the usual quagmires. 5) Would cost too much money Am I missing anything or does that about cover it?

6) We respect the sovereignty of nations and don't randomly invade countries that are no threat to us

Also, 4 is a really big point. Unless you annex NK and make it a colony, almost all precedent tells us that your plan would end in decades of civil war and a lot of suffering (or an equally brutal "democratic" regime).

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