Method for providing an elastic content filtering security service in a mesh network

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for distributing rating information in a wireless mesh network, the method comprising:

• receiving an access request sent over a communication network at a first mesh node in a network that includes a plurality of mesh nodes;
• identifying that a second wireless mesh node among the plurality of mesh nodes has failed;
• sending the access request from the first mesh node to a third mesh node designated as an alternate among the plurality of mesh nodes;
• sending a communication from the alternate mesh node to the first mesh node, the communication indicating that the access request is associated with a bad reputation in accordance with stored reputation information in cache memory of the alternate mesh node;
• and blocking the access request from being sent to one or more computing devices in the network, the access request being blocked by the alternate mesh node;
• providing the bad reputation for storage in memory of a computing device;
• and blocking, by the computing device, a subsequent access request that identifies a same link that is associated with the access request received by the first mesh node.