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Originally Posted by Gullanian
It's just a type proxy server so fact our origin servers are .net doesn't make any difference (my assumption). Yeah it blows, oh well thanks for your help!
I was thinking something a little bit different, not exactly about .net per se.
If you are using a Linux as a proxy, you are now routing all of your requests through that one IP address. This could look like a DOS to your server's firewalls, and that connection may be dropped by the windows server.
The simple idea is to be sure the IP address is white-listed, but I'm not sure what other blocking or rate-limited parameters are set, for example.
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@Grue;
If you want to block IP addresses, using iptables may help a bit....
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ip-how-437675/
As far as I recall, Windows computers are dynamic IP Addresses, so you'd need more sophisticated blocking mechanisms.
The easy way is to either block all Windows users* or just use Cloudflare for user blocking. Cloudflare is definitely worth it for the free SSL alone.
*(I'm kidding about the war hammer approach)