Quoting Malcolm Miles on Tuesday November 23, 2004:
| On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:42:46 +0800, you wrote:
| 
| >http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11470070%255E2702,00.html
| 
| "Efforts by Telstra BigPond technicians to block access to the porn
| site failed."
| 
| How did they think they were going to do that? Perhaps they could
| filter it from BigPond users but not everybody is a BigPond user.

Well, they are publishing fake records for the gay porn site to their
customers, thusly:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      A       139.134.5.153

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      NS      ns5.bigpond.net.au.
caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      NS      ns1.bigpond.net.au.
caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      NS      ns2.bigpond.net.au.
caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      NS      ns3.bigpond.net.au.
caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      NS      ns4.bigpond.net.au.

This of couse raises interesting ethical questions about an ISPs right
to peform man-in-the-middle spoofing on your Internet traffic.

Roll on DNSSEC I say, and this will be a thing of the past.

kim