[AusNOG] Conroy announcement on filtering

[Tom Lanyon]

On 18/12/2009, at 8:03 PM, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 17:56 +1100, Jay Mitchell wrote:
>> “In any planned deployment Telstra would prevent customer access to
>> non-Telstra DNS, thus eliminating an alternate DNS circumvention.”
>
> All they need to do after that is return A’s (and AAAA’s) pointing  
> to an
> ad server instead of returning NXDOMAINs, and the circle will  
> finally be
> complete.

They are already doing so (albeit as an opt-out service so far):

http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-branded-search-page.aspx