[AusNOG] Government contact.

Wed Jan 8 17:03:10 EST 2014

One way to get centrelink to respond is to ask over https, from memory 
this trick can work for other gov.au sites as well.

eg iirc https://medicare.gov.au throws an invalid cert error, because 
the cert is for https://www.medicare.gov.au - that will redirect.

Though if you've got local enforcement of certain policies regarding TLS 
et al, you may not get far on some of these .gov.au sites over https.

Kind of weird that Commbank and others financials have better 'ratings' 
from certain 3rd party SSL test sites than gov.au

Then again, kinda not. Down here in Tassie, the only tas.gov.au site 
I've found that seems to offer a response on port 443 is the Fire 
Service, and only then to redirect to 80.

Pete.

On 08/01/14 16:55, Robert Hudson wrote:
> Yep, it's all kinds of broken - you get a response, but not the one you
> were looking for...
>
>
> On 8 January 2014 16:54, Nathan Brookfield <
> Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
>
>> medicareaustralia.gov.au is the same as medicare.gov.au and certainly
>> does not actually work.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joseph
>> Goldman
>> Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2014 4:52 PM
>> To: Damien Gardner Jnr; AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Government contact.
>>
>> interestingly enough - medicareaustralia.gov.au does work! and so does
>> csa.gov.au - they all redirect over to humanservices.gov.au though, so
>> that is definitely their main focus for everyone to use.
>>
>> On 08/01/14 16:49, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>>> Yeah, medicare.gov.au hasn't worked for a few months either..  I'd
>>> have thought they'd be a little more thorough in redirecting the old
>>> domains though - must be causing issues for non-techy customers with
>>> bookmarks, etc..
>>>
>>> --DG
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/01/2014 3:55 PM, Joseph Goldman wrote:
>>>> I've noticed this for quite some time, it redirects to a non-existant
>>>> domain name.
>>>>
>>>> I believe it is part of their push where by they are mostly referred
>>>> to as 'human services' (http://www.humanservices.gov.au). I doubt it
>>>> was intentional to drop centrelink.gov.au though.
>>>>
>>>> On 08/01/14 15:49, David Walker wrote:
>>>>> Hey.
>>>>>
>>>>> centrelink.gov.au appears to have left the web ...
>>>>> Maybe someone with a .gov.au contact could elbow them.
>>>>> I've tried the address in the SOA postmaster@ but no response so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what I'm seeing ...
>>>>>
>>>>> curl --verbose centrelink.gov.au
>>>>>
>>>>> * About to connect() to centrelink.gov.au port 80 (#0)
>>>>> *   Trying 203.13.0.101...
>>>>> * connected
>>>>> * Connected to centrelink.gov.au (203.13.0.101) port 80 (#0)
>>>>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.28.0
>>>>>> Host: centrelink.gov.au
>>>>>> Accept: */*
>>>>>>
>>>>> < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
>>>>> < Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:33:00 GMT < Server: Apache < Location:
>>>>> http://www.centrelink.gov.au/ < Content-Length: 237 < Content-Type:
>>>>> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD
>>>>> HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head>
>>>>> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved
>>>>> Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a
>>>>> href="http://www.centrelink.gov.au/">here</a>.</p>
>>>>> </body></html>
>>>>> * Connection #0 to host centrelink.gov.au left intact
>>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>>>
>>>>> curl --verbose www.centrelink.gov.au
>>>>> * About to connect() to www.centrelink.gov.au port 80 (#0)
>>>>> *   Trying 203.13.0.101...
>>>>> * connected
>>>>> * Connected to www.centrelink.gov.au (203.13.0.101) port 80 (#0)
>>>>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.28.0
>>>>>> Host: www.centrelink.gov.au
>>>>>> Accept: */*
>>>>>>
>>>>> < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>>>>> < Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:33:45 GMT < Server: HTTPD/1.0.0 <
>>>>> Location:
>>>>> http://centrelink.csda.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/home/index.htm
>>>>> < Content-Length: 327
>>>>> < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < Set-Cookie:
>>>>> EXT7-XW0-H=R3000469852; path=/ < <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD
>>>>> HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head>
>>>>> <title>302 Found</title>
>>>>> </head><body>
>>>>> <h1>Found</h1>
>>>>> <p>The document has moved <a
>>>>> href="http://centrelink.csda.gov.au/internet/intern
>>>>> et.nsf/home/index.htm">here</a>.</p>
>>>>> <hr>
>>>>> <address>IBM_HTTP_Server at commext.humanservices.gwy Port
>>>>> 80</address> </body></html>
>>>>> * Connection #0 to host www.centrelink.gov.au left intact
>>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>>>
>>>>> curl --verbose
>>>>> centrelink.csda.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/home/index.htm
>>>>> * Could not resolve host: centrelink.csda.gov.au; Host not found
>>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>>> curl: (6) Could not resolve host: centrelink.csda.gov.au; Host not
>>>>> found
>>>>>
>>>>> nslookup centrelink.csda.gov.au dns1.centrelink.gov.au
>>>>> Server:  dns1.humanservices.gov.au
>>>>> Address:  203.13.3.6
>>>>>
>>>>> *** dns1.humanservices.gov.au can't find centrelink.csda.gov.au:
>>>>> Non-existent do
>>>>> main