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nixusg
One more reason to have your own IP addresses.
sp332
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?
ars
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 ;)

dasil003
What other way is there to block a website that can't be circumvented by changing DNS servers?
icebraining
Deep packet inspection. More specifically, either block DNS requests for those domains or the actual HTTP requests.
guelo
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
ToastOpt
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?)

MichaelApproved
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.
billpg
So my website is banned in Argentina? Cool!
jrockway
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?)