<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Didn't the court order specifically say they were to do DNS blocking? Why are there articles suggesting they are going to block cloudflare? Just for shock value?</div></blockquote></div><br><br>From the orders:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">"2. Each respondent must, within 15 business days of these orders, take reasonable steps to disable access to the Target Online Locations.</div><div class="gmail_extra">3. Order 2 is taken to have been complied with by a respondent if that respondent implements any one or more of the following steps:</div><div class="gmail_extra">(a) DNS Blocking in respect of the Target Domain Names;</div><div class="gmail_extra">(b) IP Address blocking or re-routing in respect of the Target IP Addresses;</div><div class="gmail_extra">(c) URL blocking in respect of the Target URLs and the Target Domain Names; or</div><div class="gmail_extra">(d) any alternative technical means for disabling access to the Target Online Locations as agreed in writing between the applicant and a respondent."</div><br>There are 33 respondents to this, which you can basically summarise by Telstra, Optus, TPG. They are the ones required to "disable access" to the named sites.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It would be fairly tragic if any of those ISPs happened to block all of Cloudflare when attempting to comply with the order. I rather suspect they have other means of blocking these services. At least for the five minutes before they appeared in another form that wasn't sufficiently the same...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But yes, should any of those particular ISPs simply apply an IP block in order to comply then I rather suspect we have bigger problems in the internet in Australia...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Happy silly season everyone<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br><br>Narelle<br><a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank">narellec@gmail.com</a></div>
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