Indonesia internet censorship intercepting Google public DNS

[martin.v...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Providers in Indonesia are obliged to block access to certain (I guess in their minds, extremely dangerous) websites.
Such as, apparently, imgur.com :/...

In the past, this was done by having the provider-provided DNS servers serve false results for these sites.  I would say that is abusive behaviour, but hey, they are their servers.  Some people happily circumvented this by using other DNS servers, such as Google public DNS.

Now however it seems they are also intercepting Google public DNS and having it return false results.  See example below.

I'm only mentioning this here because I have a feeling Google ought and might want to know Indonesia is forcing is ISP's to MITM attack Google's DNS service and is misleading Google customers into thinking that Google is supporting Indonesia in enforcing it's censorship.

C:\>nslookup imgur.com
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Name:    imgur.com
Address:  202.73.99.3

Cheers,
Martin