On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 20:33 +0000, Philip D'Ath wrote:
I'll give you an example. I have a couple of customers that operate strict white lists when it comes to web browsing. You can only visit URLs if they are on the approved list. One of those companies has just 6 URLs on the approved list, and Google is not one of them. They have pretty much taken the stance that the Internet at work is a tool, and not to be used or something else.
But every now and then I get asked to investigate why they can't get to certain web sites. The last one from memory was www.courierpost.co.nz, which they were using for couriers. It turned out Courier Post has built their site so that if Google Analytics is not available the pages wont load (well actually, there is about a 2 minute timeout, and then they load).
You can get rid of the delay if you just add some local DNS to make the analytics address resolve to something local. I use dnsmasq to do this for many of these kinds of domains, making them resolve to a local IP with a catch-all host that serves a blank HTML page for any request. I guess we're all getting pretty off-topic now though, and further discussion should be off-list :-) Cheers, Andrew. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com +64(272)DEBIAN I have not seen high-discipline processes succeed in commercial settings. - Alistair Cockburn ------------------------------------------------------------------------