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Re:Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targ... by dathinab on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:43PM (#37969438)
any carrier on any level

but like other have pointed out this seems to have been in the hetzner network

through wire taping laws also extend to datacenter internal interconnects I mean servers of different people can communicated with each other without the traffic leaving the server so it kinda makes sense

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Re:Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targ... by chatmasta on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:53PM (#37969510)
Yeah, agreed. But if all you need is to control a response from an IP to a verification query from LetsEncrypt, then it would be easier to just ask the entity controlling that IP space (in this case Hetzner) to setup the route for you. If you do it at the BGP level then you need the cooperation of all the peers.
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