[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Tim Raphael]

Lots of people with privacy concerns couldn’t hit the site with a VPN due to the international route blocking.

Should people be allowed to use a VPN?

- Tim



> On 10 Aug 2016, at 11:45 AM, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
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> No need for Geo Blocking.. that’s hard work
> 
> Just only advertise the route locally within Australia i.e... to Optus, Telstra and on peering exchanges... Job done..
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> Kindest Regards
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bradley Amm
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2016 1:41 PM
> To: Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org>; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
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> If they had thought about it or looked around CloudFlare do DDOS migration and Geo Blocking Would have worked wonders for this
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matt Palmer
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2016 11:37 AM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 08:11:46AM +1000, James Hodgkinson wrote:
>> 
>> "I still don’t understand why the /24 was even advertised 
>> internationally at all…  doesn’t make sense for a website that only 
>> Australians should have been accessing from within Australia."
>> 
>> Because geolocation is poor guesswork at the best of times?
> 
> Geolocation != limiting route propagation.
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> - Matt
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