unfortunately that is true... The only way to overcome this is to connect directly to a foreign ISP without using national gateways.<div><br></div><div>In the Arab Spring events some colleagues set up dial-up modems in the US to allow Internet connection via standard telephone lines. But even so, a strong IT-aware country may control and prevent this.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 January 2012 11:13, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 1/4/12, Nuno Garcia <<a href="mailto:ngarcia@ngarcia.net" target="_blank">ngarcia@ngarcia.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div>> The setup files usually point to a local DNS resolver, maybe an ISP or a<br>
> corporate DNS mirror. It is much easier for a SysAdmin to change these as<br>
> to include other DNS record trees. Or, your browser can just skip the query<br>
> on the DNS using your defaults and use its own alternative DNS root...<br>
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</div>Insane Internet laws don't make any distinctions between the "ICANN<br>
root" or alt roots.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>
route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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