Thanks for the help, it solves the problem
On Dec 19 2010, 1:49 am, Ufuk Kayserilioglu <
paracy...@gmail.com>
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 <
robert.kl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > So what happens when they find an app hosted on App Engine they don't
> > like and block that?
>
> >
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> > .
> >
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> > .