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Old 30-06-2008, 16:41   #10549
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by Deko View Post
Why are a.webwise and b.webwise running "F5 Big-IP" are these boxes doing some kind of proxying to the boxes hosted in the states.

Why are DPI machines facing the internet. Maybe i'm missing something here.
I think these boxes are commonly used as a sort of firewall/cache for web servers. They are designed primarily to improve performance of a website and provide some resilience to (d)DOS and other attacks. They could be proxying it to a server in the US but there is no evidence that they are. If they are then most of the security benefit would be lost as the real server would be exposed to the internet.
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