[89287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Mar 6 20:49:44 2006
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:48:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <20060306230242.GB13233@wonderland.linux.it>
To: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>
> 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.
good thing people use dns servers other than those put up by their ISP :)
when last faced with this situation, State-of-PA ChildPorn Law... Null
routing the affected ip-addresses was the only 'good' solution :(
-Chris
