#15339: Haiku IP addresses are blocked in Russia
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Reporter: diver | Owner: haiku-web
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: R1/beta2
Component: Website | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by kallisti5):
We spoke about this one on telegram (ironically)... turns out Russia
censors *all* of DigitalOcean's known IP addresses, AWS and who knows how
many other IP ranges as an attempt to censor... telegram.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/russia-blocks-millions-of-
ip-addresses-in-battle-against-telegram-app
I really don't have an easy solution to this one. There's no process to
request an IP be "removed from the blacklist"
Some options:
* Throw haiku-os.org, discuss, gerrit, etc behind a WAF (web application
firewall), these start at $10/month and would give us some attack/DDOS
protection while "changing" the ingress IP.
* Spin up mirrors for Russia.. this won't solve the site + services
being censored from Russian though.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15339#comment:1>
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