[53436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Nov 14 16:52:54 2002
To: Jim Deleskie <jdeleski@rci.rogers.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:11:14 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:52:14 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:11:14 EST, Jim Deleskie <jdeleski@rci.rogers.com> said:
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> 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.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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