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I work from home and use a VPN service to get a bunch of IP:s I can easily switch between. Recently a SaaS supplier blocked my IP because I was logging in prog
by cess11 1y ago
I work from home and use a VPN service to get a bunch of IP:s I can easily switch between.
Recently a SaaS supplier blocked my IP because I was logging in programmatically every thirty seconds to collect data on batch processing in a customer project, basically two HTTP requests to get an access key and then the data, and I was lazy so I just put those in a script and dumped the second response to a log file and put that in a scheduler. Turned out that another customer of the SaaS supplier somehow could see the traffic on my customer's SaaS instance and panicked because in their mind it was obviously the russians attacking or something, and when they brought this to the supplier they also panicked.
So to keep doing this I had to move over to checking whether the previous access key was still valid and reuse it if so, as well as moving my 'location' to another country. Apparently this is fine but logging in two times a minute is not. It also happens that I need to do research on network services and cloud environments, where having the ability to just hit a couple of terminal incantations to switch 'where' I am helps out quite a bit sometimes.
- walterbell 1y ago> another customer of the SaaS supplier somehow could see the traffic on my customer's SaaS instance Is this common?
- cess11 1y agoI'm not sure, but it definitely shouldn't be. It was surprising in a way I don't hesitate to call bad, but this supplier is an enterprise style organisation so of course they've only ranted at me and don't plan to alter their infrastructure.