<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:45 PM, James Braunegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.braunegg@micron21.com" target="_blank">james.braunegg@micron21.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">No need for Geo Blocking.. that’s hard work<br>
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Just only advertise the route locally within Australia i.e... to Optus, Telstra and on peering exchanges... Job done..<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Except the real world is never that simple...</div><div><br></div><div>For example, at the moment they seem to have done something like what you've suggested. Here in the US I'm not able to access any of the Census websites - simply times out at the TCP level.</div><div><br></div><div>Which would be fine - except that much of the content for the site is being loaded from the Softlayer CDN network (in reverse proxy mode). And at least some people in Australia are being directed to CDN nodes outside of Australia. And those CDN nodes then can't access the origin servers to get the content to display it, as they are geo-blocked.</div><div><br></div><div>So geo-blocking (in whatever form they are using) means that the CDN can't load content, so the pages are showing up as broken for at least some users in Australia - even though they can get to the ABS site itself.</div><div><br></div><div> Scott</div></div></div></div>