public service announcement
Mar. 24th, 2010 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslIf a site like Wikipedia is ever offline for several minutes, it's likely to be a problem in my end rather than on their end... and one that can be circumvented by surfing through a proxy, such as http://www.silentsurf.co.uk/
... which raises the question: why isn't my ISP doing that already?
... which raises the question: why isn't my ISP doing that already?
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-24 08:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-24 08:06 pm (UTC)Nevertheless, why would it appear offline from both our rather disparate ISPs?
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:16 pm (UTC)Maybe someone is doing a DDoS attack on Wikipedia from a wide range of IPs, a range which does not include the one used by the SilentSurf proxy...
I imagine someone has a tool to infer the set of blocked IPs, i.e. the rule used to decide which IPs to block.
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:19 pm (UTC)I guess SilentSurf had a cache of the pages I looked up... which is impressive. Either that, or Wikipedia is already accessible in Europe but not Canada or Qatar.
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-24 08:27 pm (UTC)208.80.152.2 en.wikipedia.org
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Date: 2010-03-24 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-24 11:47 pm (UTC)How am I supposed to know everything now?!
How am I supposed to read about dandelions while I'm supposed to be doing work?