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Blocking a Nation's IP Space
SComps writes "The Register has a good commentary about blocking Chinese IP space and some of the pros and cons surrounding that action. The question I post to Slashdot: "What is your opinion of this and what do you propose to help correct this?" Additionally, what sort of actions do other Slashdot users take to protect themselves from rogue IP space, be it national borders or even retail broadband/dialup providers such as wannadoo or comcast, roadrunner, etc?" The author of the article raises an interesting point, will this 'slippery slope' prove too difficult to walk?
For email, you can use the countries.nerd.dk RBL. Just add the two-letter country code as a prefix. So if you wish to block China from sending email, the RBL server is cn.countries.nerd.dk.
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That only works with BGP. Once your hunker down to the local level, taking out a single router can wipe out alot of customers.
Many a discussion have been had when your business-class internet goes out, all the suits quote the same "I thought the internet meant that it doesn't go out".
Sorry, if your firewall goes out, your office is out.
If your ISP's router feeding your office is out, you're out.
If your ISP's feed has a bad router, they're out and guess what, you're out too.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
As a Chinese American, I can say I was considerably annoyed when I found out my personal website was blocked by the firewall.
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As a Wikipedian, I can tell you that http://zh.wikipedia.org/ is a great case study of this censorship... it had a huge chilling effect on the project during that time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Wikipedia
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_