[SURBL-Discuss] Lookup web page not showing blacklisted urls?
Emanuele Balla
skull at spin.it
Wed Jun 3 11:29:34 CEST 2009
On 3-06-2009 11:16, SURBL Role wrote:
> The paper talks about DNS modification based on substring matching.
> That was in 2007. Not sure why it would start applying now. Could be
> proxies, or maybe someone is trying to bypass China's DNS firewall by
> offering a DNS service like:
>
> twitter.com.bypassthegreatwall.com
>
> which resolves to the real IP for twitter.com
Roland Dobbins pointed me to this:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-06-02-china-twitter-tiananmen-protests_N.htm
I guess Chinese hijacking is now being applied to all queries related to
twitter, flickr, etc. in order to inhibit the chance of bypassing the block.
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