On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > But any way what I am wondering is it the telstra sight that is blocking > things. Or is it an overseas sight. and also If it is a NZ sight that > is blocking. Are they allowed to do that.
"they" can do whatever they like, there are no "rights" out there. It's a miracle the Internet works at all ... I guess what's happened is that the upstream for PB has stopped advertising routes to their addresses. Within NZ routing is broadly based only on "national or international"; once you get into the international routers with multiple peers connected you need to know which route to take; if the network block that PB is on is no longer being actively advertised, it becomes unroutable. No need for anyone locally to do anything, it's a consequence of how large hosting centres set things up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bgp may give you the background you need here. -jim
