[dns-operations] Hijacking DNS traffic

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:15:53AM +1000,
 Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote 
 a message of 123 lines which said:

> You obviously have no idea about the laws of Australia (or other
> countries), ISP's are required to take all practicable effort to
> protect the windroids from the big bad bogie mans, and required by
> law to stop access to a large number of torrent sites

Good thing is that it is no universally enforced, as show by the RIPE
Atlas probes (honest answer is the first one):

 % atlas-resolve -r 100 -c AU thepiratebay.org
[104.27.216.28 104.27.217.28] : 72 occurrences 
[52.63.98.21 52.64.5.101 52.65.205.25 54.252.182.228 54.66.221.119 54.66.234.65 54.66.250.238 54.79.91.227] : 3 occurrences 
[101.167.164.53 101.167.166.53] : 3 occurrences 
[202.136.99.185] : 8 occurrences 
[202.136.99.184] : 5 occurrences 
[202.136.99.186] : 1 occurrences 
[202.136.99.181] : 3 occurrences 
Test #10290681 done at 2017-11-22T20:18:36Z

Congratulations, australians, for showing common sense against bad
laws.