Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:11:14 EST, Jim Deleskie <jdeleski () rci rogers com>  said:
> 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 Akamai gotcha is that if you block www.terrorist.com, where terrorist.com
points to an Akamai server, you *ALSO* break the 4,934 *other* websites that
happen to have content on that same server.
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

Attachment: _bin
Description: