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

[Skeeve Stevens]

Transit providers should not block ANYTHING when the feeds are going
further downstream. IMHO.


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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

> 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_/<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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