On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:29 -0600, "Scott Bennett" <benn...@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:17:20 +0000 "Geoff Down" > <geoffd...@fastmail.net> > wrote: > >On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:05 -0600, "Jon" <torance...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Scott Bennett <benn...@cs.niu.edu> 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 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/