, 2005-08-30
In the 1980s, I was unbeatable in Trivial Pursuit, and to this day, I still possess a love of trivia. Here's some neat facts about the Great Wall of China. Did you know...
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The great firewall of China
, 2005-08-30 In the 1980s, I was unbeatable in Trivial Pursuit, and to this day, I still possess a love of trivia. Here's some neat facts about the Great Wall of China. Did you know...
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Hosting was cheaper and bandwith was higher in the US, so a local company decided to outsource its web site to the US... but surprise: the administrator of that hosting server decided that Romania is on his black list. I was working for an local ISP. Now, our customers flooded me with e-mails, asking me to solve a problem that was not mine. We contacted the overseas administrator, asking him for log excerpts that would prove an offending action from our IP address space. There was none! It took us months to make him delete a line from his firewall, although his customer was also affected. I guss it's just the average US attitude: US matters only, screw the rest of the world...
Anyway, the problem disappeared, maybe because generally the Romanian admins do their job very well. As far as I know, IP address blocks assigned by the local LIRs are correctly registered with RIPE in this part of the world, down to a /29, therefore an offending IP is easy traceable, at least. I know that this is not the case with China.
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