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Have you thought about that beyond your knee-jerk reaction? One of the primary reasons for using cloudflare is resistance to denial of service attacks, and you
by harshreality 11y ago
Have you thought about that beyond your knee-jerk reaction? One of the primary reasons for using cloudflare is resistance to denial of service attacks, and you want cloudflare to helpfully publish the real IP of the server CF is proxying for?
Scammers, thieves, phishing, and cybersquatting are weak or nonsensical reasons for demanding that CF reveal the IP they're proxying for. If a site is breaking the law, use the legal system to request the real server IP from cloudflare.
I suppose you're also against Tor, because it cloaks client-side evildoers like CF cloaks server-side evildoers?
- pjbrunet 11y agoI should be able to easily contact the web host and say, "Heads up, your server is doing some bad stuff." This works because hosts don't want to be in business with scum. They take care of it. Because it's the right thing to do, or because they would rather not be involved in a lawsuit, on the wrong side of a PR nightmare. Pretty basic, Internet 101. If I email abuse@cloudflare.com nobody gives a shit. It's irresponsible. A lawsuit should be a last resort. I'm not advocating a more or less anonymous Internet by criticizing CloudFlare. PS: I enjoyed your comment and upvoted it.
- snug 11y agoHave you tried https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/ https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/
- codexon 11y agoCloudflare also protects websites that provide denial of service attacks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10194724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10194724 At the very least, they should be revealing the IPs of these websites.