Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 28-Mar-07, 19:13 (CDT), Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote: 
> However they do not reduce the value of the IP address as a tracking 
> mechanism.  I find it interesting to note the geographic distribution of 
> requests and like to have the option to block requests from areas that cause 
> more harm than good - I haven't yet had to do this with http but have often 
> done so with ssh and smtp.

Logging and blocking can all be done at the proxy, though. No need to
transfer the remote IP to the internal server.

Steve

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