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

[Geordie Guy]

That filter uses DNS poisoning. The more likely scenario is the AFP can
issue direction that an ISP "take reasonable steps to uphold the law" and
they're issued that here with an IP as the target.
On 11/04/2013 5:39 PM, "Damian Guppy" <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given all the people saying internode / iinet works fine, and their market
> size, I would have to think we are looking at a voluntary implementation of
> a government filter. Which I think is pretty poor form for Telstra / Optus
> / AAPT to be forcing their (ineffective) filter onto their downstream
> customers without any sort of acknowledgement. This is probably one of
> thoes things that needs to blow up on whirlpool to get a real response out
> of whoever as to what is happening.
>
> Of course, if this is a new addition to the rumored mandatory blacklist
> that all ISP's have to adhear to it could just be iiNet havent updated
> their tables.
>
> --Damian
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Benjamin Donald-Wilson <benny at thesii.org>wrote:
>
>> Yep, works from a friend's Internode connection in Sydney.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Heinz N <ausnog at equisoft.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>  I just got someone to check the website though his University
>>>> of Queensland VPN. He says he can access it though that but not directly
>>>> though his normal Bigpond internet connection.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yeah, I can get to it through an OS Proxy & TOR network. If these idiot
>>> politicians think they can stop anyone getting to anywhere, they are
>>> deluded. A 12 year old could get past this "block". This is what comes of
>>> having clueless politicians trying to "regulate" something that they have
>>> never used. They will only be happy when they block /0
>>>
>>>
>> Yep, no doubt a 12 year old could get past the block, I'm only a few
>> years older then that.
>>
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