> > 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 <estel...@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. > > > > > > > -- - *Vaughn Graham* *Director of E-Innovations* Domino Management Services LLC.
