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Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Thu Nov 14 16:54:29 2002 
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:11:14 EST, Jim Deleskie <[email protected]>  said:
> 
> 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.
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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