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kitcar
on May 18, 2011
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Frickin' Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns ...
As this is a DNS based service, If I were a hacker, couldn't I just skip all the protection CloudFlare offers by hardwiring the website's domain + IP in my hosts file?
kondro
on May 18, 2011
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CloudFlare is actually a CDN proxy, so you could overcome this by hardwiring your web server firewall rules to the CloudFlare platform.
kitcar
on May 19, 2011
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Ah, so basically use IPTables to detect if the request is originating from CloudFlare's CDN, and if it is not redirect it via CloudFlare?
blantonl
on May 19, 2011
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No, you would configure your firewall to only allow requests from CloudFlare's infrastructure.
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