[AusNOG] Internet companies forced to block The Pirate Bay, bittorrent websites in Australia, Federal Court rules

[andrew at mcnaughty.com]

I suppose you could run transparent proxies, but simply blocking traffic would cause many things to fail, as hard coded DNS settings are quite common in applications and devices.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: michael.bethune at australiaonline.net.au
To: james.braunegg at micron21.com
Cc: AusNOG Mailing List <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 9:33
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Internet companies forced to block The Pirate Bay, bittorrent websites in Australia, Federal Court rules

Quoting Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com>:

> On 15 Dec. 2016 5:02 pm, "James Braunegg" <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
> wrote:
>
...
>
> Once the sites are blocked, people who continue to visit the blocked sites
> will see a warning page informing them the site cannot be accessed.
>
> The "landing page" as it is referred to, will be hosted by either the ISP
> or the rights holder.  ß What a nice attack target that will be for kids on
> Holidays who can not download?
>
> So where is the official piece of paper?.  And how will this stop users
> from using 8.8.8.8 for DNS.

Of course, it is feasible to require ISPs to block use of external DNS  
servers...

Just saying.

Kind regards

Michael Bethune
Australia On Line


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