*laugh* The following was forwarded to me from aarnet-contacts@aarnet.edu.au, a mailing list for organisations connected to AARNet (Australian Academic and Research Network) -- the local Internet -- which provides our gateway to the world. fyi: The AFP (Australian Federal Police) currently have a machine on the network, and have for some time, it has no DNS records but its registered domain is in the NIC. [..] Recently, Geoff Huston wrote:
It would appear that through a problem in routing configurations (and a basic issue with routing capability on the site) there is a backdoor between the State Computing Systems of Tas, SA and NT. This backdoor is via a network operated by the Australian Federal Police, This backdoor however is configured with packet filters which although it allows routing, it traps and kill all consequent transit traffic. So what we are now talking about is a black hole which uses a sufficiently low metric that transit traffic will not use AARNet even though AARNet connectivity is available. [..]
Matthew. -- Matthew Gream <M.Gream@uts.edu.au> -- Consent Technologies, (02) 821-2043 Disclaimer: I'm only a student at UTS, and don't represent them.