The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has instructed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect Domain Name Service (DNS) traffic that uses third-party DNS servers back to their own DNS servers
MCMC has blocked a total of 24,277 websites between between 2018 to Aug 1, classified into various categories, which are online gambling (39 per cent), pornography/obscene content (31 per cent), copyright infringement (14 per cent), other harmful sites (12 per cent), prostitution (two per cent) and unlawful investments/scams (two per cent).
“It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.
Doesn’t DoH and DoT completely kill this?
I have configured my home router to redirect all plaintext DNS traffic through it. I did it because Chromecasts try to sidestep DNS and go straight to Google.
While doing that was a couple of lines of nftables config, blocking DoH would require an actively maintained list. Even then, it would be trivial to host your own by renting some server space.
Some time ago the Malaysian government denied access to Steam over one religious video game. Yes the whole platform over one game. So this looks like a case of the government being dumb as usual.
Encrypted DNS traffic => oh noed, what now?
say what you will, but online gambling being the most blocked category is heartening to hear.
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/
I use pihole+cloudflared to translate all DNS requests on my LAN to DoH requests. Regular DNS isn’t permitted to leave my network. (port 53 outbound is blocked)
Can’t redirect/modify/monitor DoH requests like you can plain DNS.
It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.
You don’t need to ban privacy reapecting DNS services to ban specific websites. It’s made just for spying.
These guys ever heard of Mozilla and good old ECH along with DoH? Just lol at these noobs.
And if the Malaysian government wants to try fucking with American tech they’ll get what’s coming for them
