While I have not seen any references to this Cloud flare thing, I was wondering if MTF uses it?
If this forum does use it - those responsible might want to do some research on it, especially a thing called the "Honey Pot Project" - a project that was picked up by US Homeland Security and a project that built by those who built and run Cloud Flare ... Read into that anything you want - but do the research first
If here does not use the thing, then all is good!
As far as i know Cloudflare is an edge network that many sites (and i think some hosting providers) use to protect themselves from certain things. The honey pot project i believe is a layer of security to trap spammers and fraudsters.
I am not sure but i would have thought it would all be overkill for a not -too- busy forum site (although whoever is hosting it might use it).
I ran a route trace on this site, and these are the hops after it left the node in stockholm:
7 11 ms 10 ms 14 ms ae-11.edge4.Stockholm2.Level3.net [4.68.106.129]
8 168 ms 169 ms 166 ms ae1.37.bar4.SaltLakeCity1.level3.net [4.69.219.58]
9 181 ms 183 ms 180 ms 4.53.7.174
10 179 ms 180 ms 180 ms 69-195-64-111.unifiedlayer.com [69.195.64.111]
11 181 ms 181 ms 182 ms po97.prv-leaf3a.net.unifiedlayer.com [162.144.240.43]
12 179 ms 180 ms 180 ms 142-4-31-10.unifiedlayer.com [142.4.31.10]
Trace complete.
I can't see any cloudflare domains in there so probably not?
PS: .buuut.. it might be hopping the DNS too so to find that out we do;
nslookup www.modelrailroadforums.com
Server: anyresolver1.comhem.se
Address: 83.255.255.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:
www.modelrailroadforums.com
Address: 142.4.31.10
then on linux you can use:
whois -h whois.arin.net n 142.4.31.10 | egrep 'Organization'
or on windows, mac or linux goto some whois service like
Get verified Whois information for any Domain Name, Check Domain Availability for FREE! Register Domain Names at best prices and host your own website.
www.whois.com
This should show if Cloudflare is involved.
I did not see anything for this site but for example for VIMEO.COM:
anyresolver1.comhem.se
Address: 83.255.255.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: vimeo.com Addresses: 162.159.138.60 162.159.128.61
then do a WHOIS;
NetRange: 162.158.0.0 - 162.159.255.255
CIDR: 162.158.0.0/15
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
However for this site i am seeing:
NetRange: 142.4.0.0 - 142.4.31.255
CIDR: 142.4.0.0/19
NetName: UNIFIEDLAYER-NETWORK-10
and on the "mysteryIP" 4.53.7.174 from our tracert
NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.127.255.255
CIDR: 4.0.0.0/9
NetName: LVLT-ORG-4-8
So no i am now mostly certain they are not involved. Although to be honest i dont think anyone here needs to get worried, I think the powers that be have more to worry about than model trains
