[66549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Brenton)
Thu Jan 15 17:33:06 2004
From: Chris Brenton <cbrenton@chrisbrenton.org>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4007101B.40200@fnordsystems.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:38:14 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:11, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>
> And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in
> the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single
> point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops.
Not sure if its still the same setup, but up till 2 years ago this
consisted of 6 HTTP proxies sitting on the same class C. Best part was
they were _open_ proxies, so it was not uncommon to have a .net or .uk
attacker bounce through them on the way to attacking your site.
Oh joy...
C
