unfortunately that is true... The only way to overcome this is to connect
directly to a foreign ISP without using national gateways.

In the Arab Spring events some colleagues set up dial-up modems in the US
to allow Internet connection via standard telephone lines. But even so, a
strong IT-aware country may control and prevent this.



On 4 January 2012 11:13, McTim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 1/4/12, Nuno Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The setup files usually point to a local DNS resolver, maybe an ISP or a
> > corporate DNS mirror. It is much easier for a SysAdmin to change these as
> > to include other DNS record trees. Or, your browser can just skip the
> query
> > on the DNS using your defaults and use its own alternative DNS root...
>
>
> Insane Internet laws don't make any distinctions between the "ICANN
> root" or alt roots.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>