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

[Ross Wheeler]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, michael.bethune at australiaonline.net.au wrote:

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

That would cause a great deal of damage to legitimate testing - eg, I 
frequently query other nameservers for diagnostic purposes. If my upstream 
were to artificially restrict my access to them for such purposes, I'd be 
hopping mad.