Re: Stopping IP data from travelling too far
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:44:22 +0000 (GMT)
> (Here in NZ, we pay volume charges for data that goes over our overseas
> link. Due to the rather unpredictable layout of both domain names and
> IP numbers, the only way I can easily stop people from accessing overseas
> sites is something like this, since all NZ sites seem to be within 8 hops,
> and most overseas ones at least 14. I can deal with letting specific
> things connect further by using a proxy on another machine. )
>
> Can anyone help?
Get your international link provider to firewall the machine you requested
off at their gateway. That is the proper answer.
Alan