[kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

We tried the WAF feature twice in a couple of years.

We did not notice any drop in Tor traffic, but the site editors complained
that it prompts them with an annoying CAPTCHA every time they try to post
content to the site. So we disabled it since the results were the same: not
useable.

CloudFlare still acts as a caching reverse proxy for the site.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:27:25 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> said:
>
> > No. I use it for clients.  It is basically a Varnish server for the
> > free tier (caching reverse proxy).
>
> > For the paid tiers, they have a web application firewall, which is
> > supposed to do what I want (protect from spammers etc.). But the fact
> > is that it is both useless for real spammers, and over aggressive for
> > legit users (forces a CAPTCHA on them, even logged in ones).
>
> That feature is available for the free tier as well, though I think the
> free tier has less knobs to tweak.  It blocks a lot of Tor traffic,
> which depending on your views may be either a good thing or a bad thing.
>
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