Barry, The issue is with the way google deals with dns. The issue is very much googles as it means a lot of people will not be able to develop on Google app engine. Most larger websites have no choice but to steer clear of Google application engine.
I would love to take the issue up with the maintainers of these firewalls. Please would you be so kind as to provide me with their contact information? On Apr 2, 1:49 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/04/2009, WallyDD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have custom domain. I have never had anything blocked in many years > > before migrating to google app engine. > > > The 'bad neighbour' issue has never been a problem for me in the past. > > What do you want, a medal? > > really that was just blind luck. (or maybe you weren't on a shared > system, or a highly segregated system, far removed from your > neighbours, either way just lucky) > > I still contend this isn't Google's problem, take up your grivence > with the maintainers of the firewalls. > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 11:18 am, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And why is this Google's problem? > > > > Presumably you are a victim of those countries over-zealous blocking > > > (presuming you don't think your site is getting blocked itself) > > > > Any shared hosting will suffer this 'bad neighbour' issue, AppEngine > > > happens to be a rather large hosting provider, so its quite likely. > > > > They could make the problem less likely to occur by using larger pool > > > of IP addresses, and hashing the domain to specific IPs, as I imagine > > > it would be impractical to offer unique IPs, but there is little > > > incentive to do so (IMHO) > > > > You might get slightly better results using a custom domain if you > > > don't already. > > > > On 02/04/2009, WallyDD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > List of countries where any website hosted on google app engine is not > > > > accessible; > > > > China > > > > Iran > > > > Sudan > > > > Syria > > > > Indonesia is blocked by most providers > > > > Cuba > > > > > On Apr 2, 10:48 am, WallyDD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > My website (on google app engine) is blocked in China where I used > > to > > > > > get a lot of traffic from. I only just realised this from looking at > > > > > the logs and noting that traffic from china has crawled to > > standstill. > > > > > I imagine my website is blocked in other countries as well thanks to > > > > > this blocking technique. > > > > > > Does Google have a plan for dealing with this? > > > > > > Any chance of a response from someone at google? I would really like > > > > > to know if this is being dealt with seriously? > > > > > > This doesn't just apply to my website, it applies to every site on > > > > > google app engine. > > > > -- > > > > Barry > > > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- > > -- > Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
