Re:CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
by judge2020 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:24AM
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Their AS blocking functionality is based on the free "maxmind geoip2 ASN" database, LAX could have chosen to set up a nginx module or site middleware to perform the same block. CF's service offering is making this configuration easier and shifting thinks like having to update the DB onto CF.
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Re:CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
by cnst on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:36AM
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And how's that any better? What's the likelihood that LAX would bother to block my AS if it wasn't a simply click courtesy of Cloudflare?
It's like that IBM saying: no-one's been fired for buying IBM. Doesn't make it a good choice, though.