CenturyLink/Qwest/Layer3 blocks Kiwi Farms

[Banquet Meal]

i wondered what had happened...i was actually replying to someone, and it kept refreshing, and then saying it couldnt load, and after several days of this, i assumed that i had been banned for whatever reason, until a friend messaged me about this post.anyway, i called centurylink twice, and spoke to two different retards, and they both gave me the same scripted nonsense, that it was ME who had blocked kiwifarms, and then directing me to some standard instructional thing on how to unblock websites from my router...that is so sketchy, because obviously if they will block one website, they will block any and all websites that dont fit their narrative..we are switching asap, because they charge to much for their barely working internet anyway.
ETA the only reason im able to post this is that my husband told me to use tor, which i had completely forgotten about.

 

[Hannibalistique]

Isn't there any way to hide a website's IP when it's actually being stalked by psychos?

That's what things like Cloudflare (and other reverse proxies) do, they act like a middleman receiving connections from users and forwarding them to the actual Kiwi Farms servers.

Though Kiwi Farms (unlike e. g. a random blog) is a bit special, since the IPs belong to Josh and are public knowledge, and then we get into routing tricks and split horizons or something (things I'm not smart enough to understand). But the general concept still is the same, a provider like Cloudflare or the new Tier 1 provider acts like a middleman.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

In large parts of the US, your only options are going to either be a shitty DSL service like Centurylink or an even shittier satellite internet setup.

What about mobile internet? Mobile internet got surprisingly good lately.

 

[Null]

Isn't there any way to hide a website's IP when it's actually being stalked by psychos?

Cloudflare.

 

[George Lucas]

Why did like twenty newfags show up and start making dumb takes at the same time?

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Cloudflare.

Out of curiosity, why not use an IaaS provider? Will Amazon or GCP or Azure shut you down? Or a smaller one based in Europe with their obsession on privacy and free speech that their workers councils blather on and on about.

That is a way to make you just a drop of water in a gigantic bucket. You’ve probably already addressed this somewhere but I’ve wondered it for a while.

E: I just realized this post needs a lot of trash can stickers. It isn’t the IaaS provider, it’s the payment processors. If I could rate my own post dumb I would.

 

[LiquidKid]

Go to https://bgp.tools/ click on your IPv4 address and there on the Connectivity tab. There you see the Upstreams.

I don’t use the ISP he manages, its not in my area. I use AT&T which currently has no issues accessing the farms(obviously since I’m posting)

 

[Hannibalistique]

Out of curiosity, why not use an IaaS provider? Will Amazon or GCP or Azure shut you down? Or a smaller one based in Europe with their obsession on privacy and free speech that their workers councils blather on and on about.

That is a way to make you just a drop of water in a gigantic bucket. You’ve probably already addressed this somewhere but I’ve wondered it for a while.

E: I just realized this post needs a lot of trash can stickers. It isn’t the IaaS provider, it’s the payment processors. If I could rate my own post dumb I would.

IaaS gets very expensive very quickly if you try to scale, and most IaaS providers either have really bad or no DoS protection, and it can get very hairy trying to integrate something non-standard or custom (like your own DDoS protection).

GCP has started to get some cool virtual networking stuff, but the management of it is a PITA, and again, expensive as fuck once you start pushing a large amount of traffic.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

IaaS gets very expensive very quickly if you try to scale, and most IaaS providers either have really bad or no DoS protection, and it can get very hairy trying to integrate something non-standard or custom (like your own DDoS protection).

GCP has started to get some cool virtual networking stuff, but the management of it is a PITA, and again, expensive as fuck once you start pushing a large amount of traffic.

AWS has DoS protection with Shield and it’s stupidly cheap compared to what we pay AT&T and Verizon for our on-prem stuff. But DDoS isn’t the issue I was going against when I mentioned IaaS, it was the BGP issue. Doesn’t matter though as I realized the payment processing was the problem, not the IP block specifically.

 

[Hannibalistique]

AWS has DoS protection with Shield and it’s stupidly cheap compared to what we pay AT&T and Verizon for our on-prem stuff.

At what scale, though? I might be overestimating the amount of traffic and data on KF, but at $DAYJOB AWS would be ridiculously expensive to use (and it's some time since I considered them, so maybe Shield has improved since I looked at it, but it used to be borderline useless for serious attacks).

But DDoS isn’t the issue I was going against when I mentioned IaaS, it was the BGP issue. Doesn’t matter though as I realized the payment processing was the problem, not the IP block specifically.

I can't wait for Visa and MasterCard to get knocked down a couple of pegs.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

At what scale, though? I might be overestimating the amount of traffic and data on KF, but at $DAYJOB AWS would be ridiculously expensive to use (and it's some time since I considered them, so maybe Shield has improved since I looked at it, but it used to be borderline useless for serious attacks).


I can't wait for Visa and MasterCard to get knocked down a couple of pegs.

It would be a PL so I won’t say specifically. But we’re pretty big - there is an economy of scale going on with it though if you have multiple accounts by how they price it. I don’t know the KF financial situation so unsure if it’s stupidly cheap to the Farms.

E: one more point. There’s nothing preventing anyone from using AWS’ WAF, then buying shield, then pointing it to on-prem infrastructure. We are doing it.

 

[Null]

Will Amazon or GCP or Azure shut you down?

Are you fucking kidding me?

 

[RonPaul2008]

Why did like twenty newfags show up and start making dumb takes at the same time?

Dear leader opened the floodgates.

 

[Null]

Why did like twenty newfags show up and start making dumb takes at the same time?

Because these are people with modest experience in the industry surprised that I'm not using aws because they have no fucking idea what we've been through the last ten years.

 

[Hannibalistique]

Because these are people with modest experience in the industry surprised that I'm not using aws because they have no fucking idea what we've been through the last ten years.

Have you tried MongoDB though?

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Are you fucking kidding me?

Yeah, I already bashed myself.

 

[Apteryx deliciosa]

aws is a meme. it's expensive for what you get (convenience and pre-fab solutions+practices), and you're subject to meme-tier terms of service and censorship.

 

[AnOminous]

Also perhaps we shouldn't discuss working DNS servers in the forum or telegram channel - only in DM's ? Just my newbie two cents.

This is all stuff that Thwompface obsessively checks in real time, he is not waiting for a nool post to figure out what he probably literally has a second monitor up auto-updating.

aws is a meme. it's expensive for what you get (convenience and pre-fab solutions+practices), and you're subject to meme-tier terms of service and censorship.

Most sites are better off with a no-name where you can actually have a relationship with the company. That counts us out for most alternatives for obvious reasons and there is basically jack-shit if Tier 1 providers themselves turn into infrastructure terrorists. Frankly anyone who pulls this kind of sabotage needs a wall to be up against.

 

[BoomerPrime]

oh you mean like this?

18 U.S. Code § 876 - Mailing threatening communications

www.law.cornell.edu

And guess what? The fucking post office will still deliver the message. This law won't be effective until after the fact.

yes it's different ofc and I was showing him how the "postal service allows any mail" argument is wrong

Unless you're going to argue that they're opening it and fucking reading it before sending it on your "showing him" is wrong too. Be less retarded, please.

 

[Not A Skinwalker]

oh you mean like this?

18 U.S. Code § 876 - Mailing threatening communications

www.law.cornell.edu

I swear troons and queers are incapable of reading a statute and thinking about what it means. sections a, b and c do not apply because there is no threat of violence or kidnapping and d does not apply because there is no attempt at extortion. this is even excluding the fact that this is not being communicated directly to a lolcow and the fact that the post office doesn't prevent harassment by mail. you see the same thing with how they cite a statute against the posting of the personal information of listed persons; where listed person is explicitly defined to be things like jury members, judges, and federal agents.
TLDR: you are retarded