Neil Brown"DNS is the Internet's phone book"
This ceased to be a useful analogy many, many years ago!
I've just read the Internet Society's new paper on DNS blocking, aimed at lawyers.
https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mandated-DNS-Blocking-Full-Paper.pdf
It is a reasonable primer for anyone new to this area, but probably still pretty hard going if you are not at familiar with this stuff.
It has no discussion of different types of record, which I found odd in a DNS primer, meaning that this sentence irked me:
> DNS resolution only translates a domain name to the IP address of a web server
Entertainment Porpoises OnlyNot trying to be a smug asshole nerd here, but:
"The IP address of a web server" is really winding me up. Is this them failing to make the distinction between the internet and the web? Or do they think that all hosts are running a webserver? The phrase "web server" has a very specific meaning and I don't think it's what they think it is
@pikesley It bugged me too, but I am trying to see it as one sentence in a whole long piece. But yes, grrr.
Nick