Mandatory ISP filtering

**cs123** · 15-12-2009, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jonk

It's opt out on the ISP side. Nothing to panic about. Torrents have been closed down, now you've got the option of 'parent filtering' from your ISP.

So, what you do, is learn about DNS. And that's how they're doing it. You only need your ISP for fee stuff on your router, such as iView etc but hard stuff you need goes through another DNS provider.

It's just DNS filtering on the ISP side.

Big BLAH !!!!

Can you point us to the reference where it is opt out and where it's bypassed by a different DNS.

jonk · 16-12-2009, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by cs123

Can you point us to the reference where it is opt out and where it's bypassed by a different DNS.

It's optional because, men only household's don't need filtering. Adults.

DNS stuff... look it up.

**cs123** · 16-12-2009, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jonk

It's optional because, men only household's don't need filtering. Adults.

DNS stuff... look it up.

I work in IT so know a fair bit about about it.

The filtering will be done at the ISP and it is not optional according to Conroy.

Are you confusing DNS with proxy or VPN?

jonk · 16-12-2009, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cs123

I work in IT so know a fair bit about about it.

The filtering will be done at the ISP and it is not optional according to Conroy.

Are you confusing DNS with proxy or VPN?

Simple. It's about DNS. Forget proxy or VPN.

**cs123** · 16-12-2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jonk

Simple. It's about DNS. Forget proxy or VPN.

Initial filtering happens at layer 3 and is IP based. It doesn't matter what DNS server you use, you still have to traverse the router that is providing the filtering. If it has a hit on the IP then it performs an additional inspection on the URL and blocks or allows the request.

This is from the report on filtering.