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That wouldn't do anything, since CF's CDN connects to the backends directly. As such, any CF server not within the nation in question would effectively be a ci
by fake-name 3y ago
That wouldn't do anything, since CF's CDN connects to the backends directly.
As such, any CF server not within the nation in question would effectively be a circumvention tool.
- jrockway 3y agoThese are BGP blocks, right? If Cloudflare's ISP doesn't have a route to the system in question, then it can't proxy the site anymore. Maybe Cloudflare has an Ethernet cable between the server in question and itself, but that seems unlikely to me. There is probably some ISP in the middle that will play ball, right?
- yuliyp 3y agoCloudflare owns/leases fiber to form its own international network. A user's request hits a cloudflare server. if that server needs to contact the origin, it can exit from anywhere in cloudflare's network. If the origin is in the country which is wanting the block to happen they'd just ask the hosting provider to take the service down, otherwise CF would almost certainly be able to reach it from somewhere in their network.
- fake-name 3y agoYou seem to be assuming that cloudflare's CDN is located in the country doing the blocking. I'd imagine that CF's first act would be to remove any of the "offending" content from the country, at which point BGP blocking would no longer do anything.
- patmorgan23 3y agoCloud flair is its own AS and they're definitely big enough to have global reachability with multiple paths.