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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
On Mar 06, Rodney Joffe <[email protected]> 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 Operationally, I wonder how many ISPs will bother removing these zones when the law will be repealed (because there is no chance that it will stand before the european courts).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
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