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Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly

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Isn't this about cost? It's cheaper to have a router filter out an IP address than it is to have the router inspect the traffic and filter it based on URL.

What other way is there to block a website that can't be circumvented by changing DNS servers?

Deep packet inspection. More specifically, either block DNS requests for those domains or the actual HTTP requests.

Right, so if an ISP doesn't have the capability to do that kind of blocking then the only way to comply with the court order is to null route blogspot.com

Or, more accurately, the IP address it resolves to. The ISP is primarily in the business of moving IP packets; domain names do not appear at the IP layer.

(they also provide DNS services; they could disable resolution of blogspot.com, is that what you meant?)

This seems like a poor way to censor the Internet. Can't Google trivially change what address hosts Blogger in about 5 seconds?

(Also, the site in question seems pretty interesting. A wikileaks-alike?)

There is another tragicomic story about McDonald's Argentina removing the Big Mac (from the list) because the Government wants to hide the inflation index that will be revealed comparing to the Big Mac Index.

See:

- The Big Mac Index: Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Big Mac in Buenos Aires http://localbuenosaires.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/the-big-mac... (read the comments)

- http://www.economist.com/node/18587317

Also, can't you just use Google to view the cached version?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...

One more reason to have your own IP addresses.

It's harder to administer a blog yourself than to host it on Blogger. Can you host a blogger.com blog from your own IP?

You could redirect (at the IP level or proxy) all traffic from your IP to the real blogger IP.

In fact maybe someone with bandwidth could do that for Argentina to help them out ;)

So my website is banned in Argentina? Cool!

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