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Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers

From "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.firefox, alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers
Date 2025-03-19 08:08 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <vrdqi3$bjct$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (10 earlier) <vrbpgl$2gngj$1@dont-email.me> <vrc0rn$2mq53$1@dont-email.me> <vrchh5$35l7o$1@dont-email.me> <vrck47$380tp$1@dont-email.me> <ttlktjpal47sdbivi47usgin928o56be4d@4ax.com>

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Char,

> Look at it this way, when you do a DNS lookup for a specific domain,
> there's no guarantee, nor should there be any expectation, that the
> IP address in the DNS response physically lives on a server owned
> by that domain, or is located at a facility owned by that domain.
> That's how you can end up using Akamai equipment, or one of the
> others, even though you've not seen a DNS request for

... which is what I thought of very shortly after I shut down my 'puter for 
the night.  :-)    (Up until then I was still trying to figure out the "pas 
thru" bit)

Yes, the whole website could be located on one of Akamai's servers, with the 
DNS record for the websites domain pointing to it.

Withouth doing a reverse-DNS on the returned IP the browser (and all its 
privacy enhancements) would be none the wiser.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Sailfish <NIXCAPSsailfish@NIXCAPSunforgettable.com> - 2025-03-16 05:47 -0700
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-16 15:14 +0100
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> - 2025-03-16 14:24 +0000
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2025-03-16 14:32 +0000
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-16 11:36 -0400
    Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-03-17 01:19 +0000
      Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-03-17 19:22 +1100
        Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-17 10:55 +0100
          Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-17 13:19 +0100
            Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-17 12:43 +0000
            Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-17 14:27 +0100
              Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-17 20:04 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-17 20:59 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-03-17 21:20 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-18 07:40 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-18 08:39 -0400
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-18 15:43 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-18 15:29 -0400
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-18 21:12 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-18 18:52 -0400
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-19 08:28 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-19 01:30 -0500
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-19 08:08 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-19 02:49 -0500
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-19 08:39 -0400
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-19 14:20 +0100
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers News <news@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-03-18 07:30 +0000
                Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-18 09:10 +0100
          Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-03-18 00:10 +1100
            Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-17 14:32 +0100
              Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2025-03-17 15:37 +0100
            Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-03-17 21:22 +0100
          Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-25 01:57 -0400
            Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-25 20:25 +0100
              Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-25 20:35 -0400
      Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2025-03-17 13:02 +0100
        No RCEs to see here [was: Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers] Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.example.com> - 2025-03-17 13:50 +0000
          Re: No RCEs to see here [was: Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers] ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-03-17 18:24 +0000
        Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> - 2025-03-17 22:09 +0000
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-16 12:26 -0500
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-03-17 08:12 +1000
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers User One <noreply@invalid.com> - 2025-03-16 22:37 +0000
    Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-03-17 21:18 +0100
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-03-17 01:18 +0000
    Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.example.com> - 2025-03-17 14:05 +0000
  Re: CloudFlare is blocking smaller browsers "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-03-17 13:45 -0700

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