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.


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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel