I Guess Lenny Will Release
In September In October In November In December In January (2009) Later Still Whenever It Is Ready ( 13 votes ~ 0 comments )
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#4 Re: Country-based packet filtering with iptables Posted by raf (131.130.xx.xx) on Wed 18 Apr 2007 at 10:53 and now to something completely non-techie: speaking of "racist routing" seems to me to be multi-dimensional rubbish. the article presents a technology, that gives you the ability to alter the behaviour of your firewall based on certan ip-ranges. paralleling ip-ranges with countries, and countries with nationalities, or countries with "races" (a concept without a scientific basis, but a long discriminatory history) is politically speaking simply non-sense. i'm definitely unable to think of any explanatory value of the word "race" in this context. what's next? elitist routing, class-based routing, os-based routing (... -m geoip ! --src-os un*x -j REJECT) sorry, but also technical articles should be based on a certain amount of critical scrutiny. raf
and now to something completely non-techie:
speaking of "racist routing" seems to me to be multi-dimensional rubbish. the article presents a technology, that gives you the ability to alter the behaviour of your firewall based on certan ip-ranges. paralleling ip-ranges with countries, and countries with nationalities, or countries with "races" (a concept without a scientific basis, but a long discriminatory history) is politically speaking simply non-sense. i'm definitely unable to think of any explanatory value of the word "race" in this context.
what's next? elitist routing, class-based routing, os-based routing (... -m geoip ! --src-os un*x -j REJECT)
... -m geoip ! --src-os un*x -j REJECT
sorry, but also technical articles should be based on a certain amount of critical scrutiny.
raf
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