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Re: [Full-disclosure] Gmail and China's GFW



On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:53 PM, nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> 
>>> Try it, you will get a connection timeout:
>>> 
>>> $ curl --connect-timeout 60 https://mail.google.com/
>>> curl: (28) SSL connection timeout
>>> 
>>> The same applies for Twitter, Facebook... Much more efficient than
>>> DNS/IP blocking!
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for the information. I was not actually aware of that you can block
>> with iptables using hex strings. Very nice.
>> 
> 
> Forgot to say, in terms of performance. It's better to use -j REJECT
> instead of DROP (then no timeout is caused and the connection is rejected
> with ICMP destination unreachable.
> 

Not if you want it to look like a problem with Google's infrastructure rather 
than an active block where initiator can see the source of the ICMP datagrams.

--
chort

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