[89292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Mar 7 02:54:51 2006
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:54:11 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>,
"Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603070144490.9741@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Singapore seems to force all of their ISPs to send all HTTP requests
through a proxy that has a set of rules defining sites you are not allowed
to visit.
Owen
--On March 7, 2006 1:48:39 AM +0000 "Christopher L. Morrow"
<christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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