Thanks for the help, it solves the problem On Dec 19 2010, 1:49 am, Ufuk Kayserilioglu <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > > You are right, and that is exactly the reason why GAE is blocked right now. > I am afraid Kaan is a little behind the times with the YouTube ban, which > has since been lifted. The most recent ban, that also affects one of the IP > addresses that ghs.google.com resolves to, is related to a copyright > violation by a site running on GAE or Blogger. For people who are interested > (and can read Turkish), you can find a copy of the court order > here:http://imgur.com/gYzPl.jpg. The IP address 74.125.43.121 is clearly > visible. > > Kaan, > > Turkish authorities have reverted to blocking IP address for good now. I > don't think they will change that soon, since they have seen DNS blocking > does not work as they want (too easy to circumvent). About your reachability > problem, I am afraid there is hardly anything Google can do about it. I know > it is frustrating (I have an app or two on GAE as well) but as others have > said there are ways around it: > > 1. You can go the reverse proxy route. Others have suggested (I am afraid > I don't remember who) on this very mailing list, to use a small Linux VPS > instance on RackSpace to setup a reverse proxy for your site. It seems the > ping times from there to GAE are very low and the cost is only around $10 a > month. I already had some Windows services hosted on an EC2 instance on AWS > and set up ARR on the IIS7 server to do the reverse proxy in about 10 > minutes, and haven't looked back. > 2. I came upon an alternative just the other day. It appears that if you > set your DNS records to point to one of alternate the IP addresses of > ghs.google.com, you won't have any problems. (source: > http://www.burcakcubukcu.com/2010/12/bloggerda-bulunan-alan-adl-sitem...) > Now, I haven't tried this myself, but I presume it would work for GAE as > well. I suggest you setup an A record for yourself such as " > redirect.example.com" with the IP address contained in the linked article > and CNAME you primary site (let's say "www.example.com" to " > redirect.example.com"). If, and, hopefully, when, the ban is lifted, you > can change the "redirect.example.com" from an A record to a CNAME record > that points to "ghs.google.com" and you will be all set. YMMV, though. > > Best, > > Ufuk > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Robert Kluin <[email protected]>wrote: > > > So what happens when they find an app hosted on App Engine they don't > > like and block that? > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 14:57, Kaan Soral <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Actually Turkey doesn't block google, they block Youtube IP's, so the > > > problem is probebly caused by shared IP's. > > > > So in my opinion the problem can be solved if Google uses seperate > > > IP's for components. > > > > And for government blocking, they normally block domain names rather > > > than IP's but for some reason they only block Youtube IP's because > > > people just enter the site using seperate DNS etc. > > > > On Dec 17, 2:29 am, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi > > > >> I don't really believe it is solvable by google. > > > >> If they add a new pool of addresses for appengine, and some apps turn up > > on > > >> appengine that > > >> any particular government doesn't like, they will block access to that > > range > > >> and you are > > >> back in the same situation. > > > >> All anyone can do is educate and lobby their government. > > > >> Rgds > > > >> Tim Hoffman > > > > -- > > > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
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