[AusNOG] Australian senate passes controversial anti-piracy, website-blocking laws

[Nathanael Bettridge]

I wonder if it would be reasonable to point at an A record referring to a server that always returns HTTP 451 and an anti-copyright-troll “education” page?

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Shain Singh
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Maybe infrastructure upgrades to support this blocking can be rolled into the upgrades for Metadata retention. I am sure the legislation is pretty vague about how the blocking will need to happen (URL vs IP vs DNS).


My 2c would be on a using DNS RPZ. You can then either use a manual operated zonefile, or you can implement a subscription like service (i.e. authoritative DNS server could be a government agency, etc.) that sends zonefile updates.

This is typically how blacklists are implemented in SE Asian countries where the blacklisted domain (i.e. DNS resource record) can be answered with NXDOMAIN or an A record of your choice (i.e. walled-garden).




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