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RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:27:52 -0500
-- On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:11 PM -0500 -- Jim Deleskie <jdeleski () rci rogers com> supposedly wrote:
Its my understanding that since Akamai is based on DNS resolves if you where to use the method of blocking it within the DNS system it would make no difference. Although I'm no Akamai expert.
The issue is really not Akamai or Digital Island or any other service someone might buy. The end user is completely unaware of the machinations behind the scene, they are just going to type "www.terrorist.com" into their browser.
If "terroris.com" is a Bad Domain and ISPs refuse to resolve anything in that domain, then nothing else can happen. The first step is the end user's machine going to the ISP's name server asking for the IP address of "www.terrorist.com". It does not matter if that hostname is CNAME'd to another company / host / whatever, the resolution will stop immediately and the user will be unable to see the web page.
Or they can just use a publicly available web proxy, in which case it will not matter if the domain is Akamaized or not. =)
-Jim
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Alif The Terrible (Nov 14)
- Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Daniel Concepcion (Nov 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Jim Deleskie (Nov 14)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 14)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. hostmaster (Nov 14)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 14)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. hostmaster (Nov 14)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 14)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. alex (Nov 15)
- Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. David Lesher (Nov 15)
- Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. alex (Nov 15)
- Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. hostmaster (Nov 15)
- Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. David Lesher (Nov 15)
- Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. alex (Nov 17)
- RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries. Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 14)