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Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Tue Mar 07 02:55:32 2006


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" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:

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.
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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