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Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:52:54 -0500
On 2017-02-16 14:59, Sadiq Saif wrote:
From - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/a-court-order-blocked-pirate-sites-that-werent-supposed-to-be-blocked/
Many thanks. pardon my ignorance here, but question: For an outfit such as Cogent which acts not only as a transit provider, but also edge provider to large end users, can it easily implement such a court order to block only edge interfaces and not to its transit infrastructure? (aka: propagate null routes for 104.31.19.30 only to interfaces that lead to end users, but leave core/GBP aspects without the block.) Or is BGP and any internal routing protocols so intermingled that it becomes hard to manage such blocks ? The difficulty for network to block traffic becomes an important argument when trying to convince governments that blocking should not be done. (ex: Québec government wanting to block access to gambling sites except its own).
Current thread:
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites, (continued)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Patrick Boyle via NANOG (Feb 14)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Niels Bakker (Feb 14)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Jared Mauch (Feb 14)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Jean-Francois Mezei (Feb 14)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Christopher Morrow (Feb 14)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Ken Chase (Feb 14)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Andrew Paolucci (Feb 16)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Florian Weimer (Feb 17)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Kyle Drake (Feb 16)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Sadiq Saif (Feb 16)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Jean-Francois Mezei (Feb 16)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Baldur Norddahl (Feb 16)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Todd Crane (Feb 16)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Florian Weimer (Feb 17)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites tim () pelican org (Feb 17)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Florian Weimer (Feb 17)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Florian Weimer (Feb 17)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Christopher Morrow (Feb 10)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Ken Chase (Feb 10)
- Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites Christopher Morrow (Feb 10)