[142871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enterprise Internet - Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alastair Johnson)
Fri Jul 15 19:04:08 2011
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:03:10 -0700
From: Alastair Johnson <aj@sneep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <921F8179-AD39-42F8-8DCC-1B992218D46B@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/14/2011 7:37 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, while this person reset my account so that
> I could log in (from my house), I don't think Wells Fargo has any intention
> of rethinking their geo-IP based restrictions on logging in.
>
> So, if you travel, consider carefully whether to try and log into something
> directly vs. doing so over VNC.
For precisely this reason I always ensure that my banking traffic goes
via a VPN through a relatively consistent set of origin IPs to the wider
Internet.
Solves a lot of headaches, although PayPal were confused that I could be
in California and have my traffic come from Chicago (which they thought
was New Jersey...).
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