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Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird)

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> Well once upon a day I had to notice that I can not upload updates for my
> website (which is at http://www.elstel.org). I noticed that it was not
> possible to ping my webserver, to traceroute it or view web pages via http
> on it; i.e. the server seemed to be down.


It is not that uncommon for some services to block VPN and public
forwarding services, A number of the companies I have worked with have this
as a policy. It may not really help that much, but it have made it in some
admins standard toolbox.

As others have said geofencing is quite unreliable, I am in the US and I
never show as in the area I live in at least a few hundred miles away, and
this is going to be even less reliable as time goes on with companies and
countries starting to lease/sell IPv4 space, poorly documented and
geofencing services not updating as this happens.



On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > But I cannot resist one question - why you use suspicious VPNs at all?
> >
>   Well once upon a day I had to notice that I can not upload updates for
> my website (which is at http://www.elstel.org). I noticed that it was not
> possible to ping my webserver, to traceroute it or view web pages via http
> on it; i.e. the server seemed to be down.
>   As a consequence I had contacted my web service provider urgently. At
> first I could hardly believe the response that everything was ok, in
> succession I also got the response that my server was reachable from
> several different networks. Consequently the problem was on my side. While
> I was trying a lot of VPNs but could connect to apparently none of them
> while the web pages of major news portals and google were running fine I
> ultimately succeeded to connect to the least trustworthy VPN that was
> available. I should have closed my email program though in advance because
> afterwards I had to change my password.
>
> Am 2016-04-11 um 11:00 schrieb Vladislav Kurz:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would not worry myself, if the connection is reported to be from Vienna
>> instead of Klagenfurt - it is still from the same country, and GeoIP
>> databases
>> are IMHO not very precise.
>>
>>  I am somehow in doubt that it would not pay off to worry about this.
> Vienna is as far away from my home (Carinthia) as Padua in Italy is (230km
> via air and ~ 300km via road while the way to Padua is less montaneouos).
> Laibach (Slovenia) is even more close than Graz a major city on the way to
> Vienna. Ultimately I have changed my passwords and I would certainly
> believe that there was reason to do so *.
>
> * There would ultimately be no sense in geodata with sub-country
> granularity if my home is right on the other side of Austria (very in the
> South) than Vienna (in the North of Austria) is.
>
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    *Vaughn Graham*
    *Director of E-Innovations*
    Domino Management Services LLC.

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SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-10 18:30 +0200
  Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird) Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu> - 2016-04-11 00:10 +0200
    Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:30 +0200
  Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Evgeny Kapun <abacabadabacaba@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 09:00 +0200
    Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
      Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird) Vladislav Kurz <vladislav.kurz@webstep.net> - 2016-04-11 11:30 +0200
        Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 19:30 +0200
          Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird) Vaughn Graham <vaughng@dmsllconline.net> - 2016-04-11 21:00 +0200
            Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 21:20 +0200
            Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird) Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu> - 2016-04-12 05:20 +0200
      Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird) Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu> - 2016-04-11 15:00 +0200
        Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 21:50 +0200
          Re: SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with  Thunderbird) Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 22:50 +0200

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