atom feed12 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxRe: GeoIP rewite rule?, redirect CHIN...
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David TaverasFeb 13, 2010 9:05 pm 
David TaverasFeb 13, 2010 9:15 pm 
Jim OhlsteinFeb 13, 2010 9:20 pm 
CLIFFORD ILKAYFeb 14, 2010 12:56 pm 
Cliff WellsFeb 14, 2010 4:35 pm 
CLIFFORD ILKAYFeb 14, 2010 5:45 pm 
Todd FisherFeb 14, 2010 7:18 pm 
CLIFFORD ILKAYFeb 14, 2010 7:55 pm 
Cliff WellsFeb 14, 2010 9:39 pm 
Cliff WellsFeb 14, 2010 9:44 pm 
CLIFFORD ILKAYFeb 14, 2010 10:26 pm 
Jim OhlsteinFeb 15, 2010 6:27 am 
Subject:Re: GeoIP rewite rule?, redirect CHINA users to an error page.
From:CLIFFORD ILKAY (clif@dinamis.com)
Date:Feb 14, 2010 5:45:22 pm
List:ru.sysoev.nginx

On 02/14/2010 07:35 PM, Cliff Wells wrote:

On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 15:57 -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

ru no;

... and yet for some reason they run a Russian web server.

We picked the server, not our client.

While I'm sympathetic to the motives, I've always found blocking entire regions somewhat akin to securing a server by unplugging it from the internet.

There is no political motive for blocking Russia, or any other country. It's purely practical, though I agree with you that such measures are quite futile in keeping out bad guys for it would take them all of 30 seconds to defeat this scheme by using a proxy.

-- Regards,

Clifford Ilkay Dinamis 1419-3266 Yonge St. Toronto, ON Canada M4N 3P6

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