[AusNOG] Understanding lack of Aus connectivity to melbournefreeuniversity.org.

[Matt Perkins]

AAPT are providing transit. You would think that they would not block 
anything on transit. (Im not sure even the proposed /nolonger Conroy 
filter proposed anything but retail stuff. )
Then a gain a trace through AAPT from us goes dead at the border.

Matt.

On 11/04/13 4:45 PM, Tim March wrote:
>
> On 11/04/13 4:36 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:
>> It's more the "why" I'm looking for than the "how" at this point. If 
>> anyone is blackholing the site for operational reasons I figured that 
>> they would pipe up here.
>>
>> There was a suggestion that if it was a government demand, it might 
>> be through a similar process to this story: 
>> https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/457042/asic_blocks_global_capital_wealth_websites_/
>>
>> Does ASIC use a legal process to require ISPs to block certain 
>> domains, or is this part of the voluntary blacklist?
>>
>> I mailed Robert Tozer earlier today, but haven't had a reply yet.
>
> This.
>
> As Mark alluded to, according to sameid.net there are ~ 1200 domains 
> delegated to that IP address. It's public knowledge that some carriers 
> are implementing a voluntary blacklist. If that blacklist 
> implementation is responsible for arbitrarily blocking access to 
> literally thousands of sites at a time (which may or may not be the 
> case... I'm pretty keen to hear what AAPT has to say.) that's an issue.
>
>
>
> T.
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