Let’s say you visit a new city for the first time, and you’re trying to find a place you heard of that gives away free toys. You know the name, but you don’t know where it is, so you ask the man in the information booth. France has ordered the man not to tell anyone where to find the place that gives away free toys.
DNS (Domain Name System) is a simple service that resolves a domain name (example.com) to its host (where the files are, e.g. 1.1.1.1). That’s just it, nothing more.
By default you use a DNS service by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). But you can choose from many free DNS services from around the world or even self host a DNS server.
CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a service which caches files for the website. Videos, images, files, etc. It can also hide the actual address of the domain by proxying data.
The French court asked google to stop resolving domains for users using google DNS, so it cannot connect to it’s host.
Google is arguing CDN services who know the actual address of these websites and redistribute files for these pirate sites should be better targets for the court than a DNS service.
I guess they’re saying DNS blocks can easily bypassed by the users and the pirates can buy a new domain making it ineffective.
Can someone ELI5 for the non tech savvy please?
Blocking a dns request is like removing a phonenumber from a phonebook. You can still call that number, you just need another phonebook to find it.
Let’s say you visit a new city for the first time, and you’re trying to find a place you heard of that gives away free toys. You know the name, but you don’t know where it is, so you ask the man in the information booth. France has ordered the man not to tell anyone where to find the place that gives away free toys.
DNS (Domain Name System) is a simple service that resolves a domain name (example.com) to its host (where the files are, e.g. 1.1.1.1). That’s just it, nothing more.
By default you use a DNS service by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). But you can choose from many free DNS services from around the world or even self host a DNS server.
CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a service which caches files for the website. Videos, images, files, etc. It can also hide the actual address of the domain by proxying data.
The French court asked google to stop resolving domains for users using google DNS, so it cannot connect to it’s host.
Google is arguing CDN services who know the actual address of these websites and redistribute files for these pirate sites should be better targets for the court than a DNS service.
I guess they’re saying DNS blocks can easily bypassed by the users and the pirates can buy a new domain making it ineffective.