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Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)

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Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)

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Post by selcuka »

zelon88 wrote: post #5

While I think this is an interesting option to consider, wouldn't changing global DNS mostly impact users external to Russia? Would .ru still resolve inside Russia?

If Russian ISPs continue resolving .ru domains, yes, Russian residents won't see any difference unless they have configured their routers to use a foreign nameserver (even that can be worked around as DNS is usually unencrypted UDP).

Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)

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Post by shmerl »

Given world powers don't want to defend Ukraine directly out of fear of wider war, it's hard to blame them for doing it, though it sounds wrong as a blank kind of shutdown. Targeting government and commercial sites that fund it is more like it.

Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)

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Post by Shank »

> Apart from these measures, I will be sending a separate request to RIPE NCC asking to withdraw the right to use all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by all Russian members of RIPE NCC (LIRs - Local Internet Registries), and to block the DNS root servers that it is operating.

I can't help but think that this is a bit detrimental to average citizens. Am I reading this right? Wouldn't this essentially split the internet at Russia, and/or completely destroy the internet in Russia, by deallocating all IPs?

Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)

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Post by gruez »

zelon88 wrote: post #5

While I think this is an interesting option to consider, wouldn't changing global DNS mostly impact users external to Russia? Would .ru still resolve inside Russia?

The goal seems to be cutting russia entirely off the internet

Re: Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of .ru root DNS servers)

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Post by selcuka »

Shank wrote: post #15

> Apart from these measures, I will be sending a separate request to RIPE NCC asking to withdraw the right to use all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by all Russian members of RIPE NCC (LIRs - Local Internet Registries), and to block the DNS root servers that it is operating. I can't help but think that this is a bit detrimental to average citizens. Am I reading this right? Wouldn't this essentially split the internet at Rus…

The point of sanctions is to be detrimental to average citizens (aka voters) so that they can put pressure on Putin. This suggestion has several other issues though.
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