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Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban (mastodon.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

yea found a fix by someone else as well

Stéphane Bortzmeyer @[email protected]

@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?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It’s got nothing to do with Mastodon—it’s the domain name system. If DNS doesn’t direct the request to the intended server, the server never sees it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's not how it works... the .af domain is reserved for use by Afganistan by ICANN and the government of Afganistan is the Taliban. Same with the commies on .ml which is reserved for Malaysia.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everything else correct. But ml is actually Mali. my is Malaysia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Dammit. The whole thing is basically absurd though because these letters mean fuckall in Afghanistan, Mali, and Malaysia and I think URLs can even have unicode now, though idk about tlds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

To be fair, I didn't know ml was Mali, I had to look that up. But I did know Malaysia was my, which was what prompted me to look ml up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There are tons of tlds with arbritrary unicode characters

[–] [email protected] 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).

[–] [email protected] 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.