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

[Tim March]

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.