[89284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco d'Itri)
Mon Mar 6 18:03:16 2006
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 00:02:42 +0100
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <F24D08D3-AFB7-4E26-BF2E-A67F04A38A69@centergate.com>
From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 06, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com> wrote:
> It appears that Italy has ordered Italian ISPs to block access to a
> number of Internet Gambling sites. It would be interesting to see how
> the Italian ISPs are handling this, what with dynamic DNS and all
> that...
So far, the method officially recommended by the government entity
involved with collecting the gambling fees has been to create fake
zones on the caching resolvers of the large consumer ISPs.
Operationally, I wonder how many ISPs will bother removing these zones
when the law will be repealed (because there is no chance that it will
stand before the european courts).
From a more practical POV, it can be noted that the obvious methods
useful to bypass the "block" (using a random open proxy or just a random
open resolver) have been widely advertised on gambling forums even
before it was implemented.
Personally I do not believe that the government ever believed that this
would work, it's just a trick to add some extra future earnings to the
2006 budget law.
--
ciao,
Marco
