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It's official: Bush doesn't care about the world
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| trancaholic |
Apparently Bush has decided to come clean:
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| quote: | Bush website adopts isolationist stance
By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 27th October 2004 10:30 GMT
International access to the official re-election website of Us President George W. Bush (www.georgewbush.com) has been blocked. Surfers from outside the US trying to reach the site receive an "access denied" message.
Netcraft reports that the site, hosted at SmarTech Corporation, began using the Akamai content distribution network to manage traffic on 21 October. The move followed a six hour outage on 19 October, which also the official site of the Republican National Committee. Neither organisation gave reasons for the temporary blackout.
Since Monday morning (25 October) GeorgeWBush.com began rejecting web requests from outside the United States, Netcraft reports. Those outside America can only reach the site through US based proxies (such as proxify.com) but not through European proxies, Reg readers report.
As a security measure this doesn't make an awful lot of sense but the move does mean soldiers and other Americans abroad can't reach the re-election website. A number of reports (such as this by news agency AFP) suggest the site was inaccessible yesterday because of an attack by hackers but this would seem to be a misinterpretation of the site's newly-instigated isolationist policy. GeorgeWBush.com is built on IIS 6, the latest version of Microsoft's web server platform. ®
Technical Update
Although overseas visitors to www.georgewbush.com are blocked https://georgewbush.com or http://65.172.163.222 still work. http://65.172.163.222 resolves as GeorgeWBush.com which illustrates how cack-handed the blocking is. |
Lovely. |
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| Uebermann |
| now there is a surprise |
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| chavs |
| Why would someone do something like that? It's one of the dumbest thing done in this internet |
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| Dj_Irish |
| quote: | Originally posted by chavs
Why would someone do something like that? It's one of the dumbest thing done in this internet |
Correction: Internets |
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| tecnolover |
They obviously didn't do this because they are hiding anything because those other mirror url's get you guys there do they not?
I would think that the domain server is doing this only because they want US domestic citizens to have priority access to the site because of the elections. Remember servers can only handle so much traffic. |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by tecnolover
They obviously didn't do this because they are hiding anything because those other mirror url's get you guys there do they not?
I would think that the domain server is doing this only because they want US domestic citizens to have priority access to the site because of the elections. Remember servers can only handle so much traffic. |
Hence, the idea of *several* servers. That's what other highly visited sites use. This cannot be explained in any other way as a down-prioritizing of foreign visitors. |
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| JM |
:o i'm sleepy.
so what's new? 90% of the "world" doesn't care about Bush, why should he be doing anybody any favors?
>JM< |
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| auujay |
| quote: | Originally posted by JM
:o i'm sleepy.
so what's new? 90% of the "world" doesn't care about Bush, why should he be doing anybody any favors?
>JM< |
But this is blocking the nearly four million Americans living abroad not to mention the service men and women who are overseas. The extra cost for servers/bandwidth to keep the servers up under an increased load probobly cost about as much as one TV commercial... |
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| FuzzyGreen |
who cares.
First of all, I seriously doubt that Bush had anything to do with this (he probably doesn't know what a server is anyway). I'm sure it's handled by some small sect of his re-election campaign team.
Secondly, they didn't say they did this on purpose, it could have been an accident or a hacker.
Thirdly, even if they did do it on purpose, who cares, American's are the ones that vote. |
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| DJ_Elyot |
| This is really dumb? Why would they decide to do this... it makes no sense. I think that maybe one of their servers blew up and they had to do this so the other servers could handle the traffic. |
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| St_Andrew |
it works here in Canada :toocool:
officially i think it was some security problems... i think that sounds weird tho... since it is just to use an american proxy anyway... and usually if you compromise a server it doesnt really matter if you get a access denied message or not.... |
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