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[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Ultimately each country makes the rules for domains under its top level, for those that are named for the country, like .af for Afghanistan. Everything about the instance is intact and can be moved to a different domain.

[–] i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (8 children)

yea found a fix by someone else as well

Stéphane Bortzmeyer @bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr

@GossiTheDog Since the authoritative name servers still reply; you can also ask the #DNS resolver administrator to forward requests for queer.af to kiki.bunny.net and coco.bunny.net.

did not know they can control domain names,

is it possible to deny them that request? why did maston comply with them?

[–] bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@i_have_no_enemies @zoostation Maston? You mean Mastodon? The software did not "comply", it just issues regular DNS requets and the domain name servers for .af now reply NXDOMAIN (No Such Domain) for queer.af.
See https://catnip.article19.org/ (or @b0rk zines).

[–] bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr 1 points 9 months ago

@i_have_no_enemies @zoostation @b0rk By the way, there is a #DNS client on the fediverse, @DNSresolver See for instance https://mastodon.gougere.fr/@bortzmeyer/111919725507892158 to see a query and the answer.

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