SOPA vote to get it out of committee delayed

[thewayne]

This is good. They've heard from ??AA "experts" who want to legislate technical changes to the internet, yet they didn't allow any witnesses who were technical experts on how the internet is engineered and how these changes would damage the internet

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[silveradept]

And one could, theoretically, just redirect one's DNS lookups to somewhere else that doesn't follow SOPA and be just fine, right?

[thewayne]

Yep. The DNS server is part of your IP address configuration, the same information where your DHCP server is found. You have to use your ISP's DHCP information as that is internal network TCP/IP address configuration, but the DNS server can certainly be proxied for a server outside your ISP's network, especially since you normally don't use domain names for servers inside your ISP's network.

For example, when I'm on my employer's network, I can type INTRANET as a domain name in a browser and get our internal web server which mainly has forms and training materials of no interest to people not on our network. Same principal.