[AusNOG] Telstra placing YouTube in restricted mode / content filtering

[Cameron]

An industry contact has reached out to me and Telstra are working on it.

I’m almost certain I couldn’t stop my residential customers being able to
use YouTube but not see/make comments in 2016 by fumbling DNS. Maybe as
network operators we should’ve done our part?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 8:35 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:

> Are you on a telstra residential connection which has set themselves into
> parental control mode in the portal?  It’s been a feature for at least 6-7
> years now AFAIK. :)
>
> —DG
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 7:25 pm, Cameron <cameron.ferdinands at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Interesting that this capability exists, concerning that Telstra's
>> enabled it.
>>
>> To keep it on topic what do network operators think about using these
>> tools?
>>
>>
>> https://support.google.com/a/answer/6214622?hl=en#zippy=%2Coption-dns
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.youtube.com. IN A
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> www.youtube.com. 0 IN CNAME restrict.youtube.com.
>> restrict.youtube.com. 2192 IN A 216.239.38.120
>>
>> ;; Query time: 25 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 2001:8003:e830:9000::1#53(2001:8003:e830:9000::1)
>> ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 18 19:18:08 AEST 2023
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 83
>>
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