[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Chad Kelly]

On 8/11/2016 10:43 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
> They are not Geo Blocking anything?.
>
> International DNS is not working as direct result of all 4 name servers for census.abs.gov.au being hosted within 150.207.169.0/24 which is effectively black holed internationally via /32 and /25 routes so no international DNS server can resolve the domain.
>
> They could have at least hosted DNS on someone else?s network or used route 53 so DNS would resolve correctly for anyone not using an Australian DNS server.
>
> auolpr00dn03d.abs.gov.au.   ['150.207.169.20']   [TTL=10800]
> auolpr00dn02d.abs.gov.au.   ['150.207.169.7']   [TTL=10800]
> auolpr00dn04d.abs.gov.au.   ['150.207.169.21']   [TTL=10800]
> auolpr00dn01d.abs.gov.au.   ['150.207.169.6']   [TTL=10800]
>
> Basically to complete the Census you have to use an Australian based connection with an Australian DNS server.
>
> On a side note I think the ABS will be placing an order with NSFOCUS or Arbor for some Layer 3 to 7 DDoS scrubbing hardware ? which clearly they don?t have, as if they had the correct DDoS scrubbing technology in place they would not need to use the black holing technique which is currently in place.

I reckon you guys should put in a bid for the contract James when it 
comes up in October.

Based on all the investment you guys have into the DC and the network, 
it would be a good test.

Plus they have a decent budget for the services they need to run such a 
service correctly.



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Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
web www.cpkws.com.au
phone 03 9013 4853