Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

Post by sam_lowry_ » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 8:51 AM UTC

grishka wrote: post #157

aguaviva wrote: post #156

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European here, Russia is not threatening anyone here, not sure who told you that nonsense. Since 2014, Russia (that is, its government) has: - Shot down a passenger jet departing from Amsterdam, murdering 298 persons (including 211 citizens from European countries) - Carried out (or attempted) targeted killings in the UK, Germany and Spain - Blown up a Czech munitions plant, poisoned a Bulgarian arms dealer - Organiz…

We're not talking about the government here. We're talking about regular people.

Post by justsomehnguy » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

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I don't see how "they don't work" and "they are inconvenient" are contradictory statements. They would've been if there were feedback mechanisms that we could use to communicate our point of view the government, but there aren't any, so in the end it's just a punishment for having been born in a wrong place at a wrong time.

So in the end it's just a punishment for having been born in a wrong place at a wrong time. That's what war is, unfortunately. Millions of people in Ukraine are currently being "punished" for exactly the same offense, only in ways infinitely worse, as I don't need to tell you. There was absolutely no reason the war had to coming into being at all. But now that we're stuck with it, the only effective questions are --…

Post by sam_lowry_ » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 9:37 AM UTC

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betaby wrote: post #106

Is Apple store working in Iran? For example, Apple store is working in Russia. I genuinely do not understand how logic works between 1.sanctions 2... 3.let's ban some IPs. What is the chain of reasoning happens on step 2? Why this is not applicable to Google/Apple? There are definitely sanctions against Russia, yet Apple/Play stores work just fine.

> For example, Apple store is working in Russia. Apple hasn't officially sold any hardware in Russia in the last 2+ years. Any Apple devices you can buy come from "parallel import" and are priced 1.5x compared to other countries. As far as I know, the only way you can pay on the app store is from your prepaid balance at some carriers. Play store doesn't accept payments at all, it pops up a modal saying "payments in R…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 10:08 AM UTC

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Few of them do have an effect on the military, but hardly a significant one. Some of them forced the government officials to eat their own dog food. Most of them, however, feel like mocking petty revenge. If anything, those sanctions that disproportionately affect regular powerless people only reinforce the official propaganda's view that "we're encircled by enemies". Vladimir Kara-Murza expressed the same ideas much…

> In my own opinion, a good step in the right direction would be if we could travel to European countries as easily as we used to be able to. I don't agree. Russia's regime threatens Europe with invasion and nuclear bombs almost on a daily basis, and vilify everyone who doesn't enthusiastically support their invasion of Ukraine. A few years ago Russia even had a nuclear bomber circling the coast of western Europe. Th…

Post by LinuxBender » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 10:48 AM UTC

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I do that on several of my hobby nodes. I block entire ASN's for all the major platforms. Real people can still reach them just fine. To your point I do less of that on my self hosted mail servers and instead use a regex methodology called S25R created by a mail admin in Japan a long time ago and it works great.

Tricky thing about Google is quite a lot of my contacts are on Gmail or some domain hosted by Gmail so blocking Google's ASN is a no go for me. I'm now with Fastmail -- they use Spamassassin (plus I suspect their own custom rules) which uses a range of different metrics to determine whether an email is spam. That is is far more effective than straight up blocking ASNs and the like.