Comment by stavros
20 days ago
It wasn't a philosophical disagreement, they needed some geo info from the DNS server to route requests so they could prevent spam and Cloudflare wasn't providing it citing privacy reasons. The admin decided to block Cloudflare rather than deal with the spam.
Had nothing to do with spam, the argument by archive.today that they needed EDNS client subnet info made no sense, they aren't anycasting with edge servers in every ISP PoP.
They use EDNS for regional compliance, not for bandwidth optimization.
What specific part of regional compliance actually needs this, and why does no other website seem to need it?
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