Web Filters Blocking P2PFoundation.net
Dear Friends, I was travelling home from Dublin to Galway by bus at the beginning of January and using the on board wifi when I discovered that our domain p2pfoundation.net was blocked. I emailed the tech support of the company who manage the wifi. They explained that we were categorised 'P2P' as in filesharing. I explained that this is not the case and within a week I received a response telling me that we have been unblocked and surely enough as I travelled on that bus today I was able to access P2PFoundation.net. Concerned that the site might be blocked on other services I asked the tech support to investigate. In the meantime I did my own investigation. The product used for the wifi service is called moovmanage by a company called http://www.icomera.com It turns out this company has clients all over Europe. Does this mean that P2PFoundation.net is blocked in other countries? Well I made a guess that Icomera get their blocklists from a thrid party. I looked into who might be offering such services and discovered OpenDNS. A quick search suggested the two companies were partners. I lodged a ticket with OpenDNS and just got a response confirming that P2PFoundation.net had been tagged ' P2P/File sharing' and that upon investigation they decided to remove us from this category and in turn all the services that use OpenDns categories to block content. http://domain.opendns.com/p2pfoundation.net Success :) Friends if you find our site blocked on public or private networks please take time to investigate and let us know. Also if you have any concerns about your own site being blocked it is easy to search with OpenDns and they were very helpful in correcting the situation. http://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/ If you know of other companies like OpenDNS that we should be checking do let us know. Best Kevin
I have been using opendns as my primary DNS for quite some time. P2pfoundation has never been blocked. Maybe they use the black list on wifi networks only. By the way, I think it would be good if the foundation also bought the .org domain. 21 Ιαν 2014, 0:50, ο/η Kevin Flanagan <[email protected]> έγραψε:
Dear Friends,
I was travelling home from Dublin to Galway by bus at the beginning of January and using the on board wifi when I discovered that our domain p2pfoundation.net was blocked. I emailed the tech support of the company who manage the wifi. They explained that we were categorised 'P2P' as in filesharing. I explained that this is not the case and within a week I received a response telling me that we have been unblocked and surely enough as I travelled on that bus today I was able to access P2PFoundation.net. Concerned that the site might be blocked on other services I asked the tech support to investigate. In the meantime I did my own investigation. The product used for the wifi service is called moovmanage by a company called http://www.icomera.com It turns out this company has clients all over Europe. Does this mean that P2PFoundation.net is blocked in other countries? Well I made a guess that Icomera get their blocklists from a thrid party. I looked into who might be offering such services and discovered OpenDNS. A quick search suggested the two companies were partners. I lodged a ticket with OpenDNS and just got a response confirming that P2PFoundation.net had been tagged ' P2P/File sharing' and that upon investigation they decided to remove us from this category and in turn all the services that use OpenDns categories to block content.
http://domain.opendns.com/p2pfoundation.net
Success :)
Friends if you find our site blocked on public or private networks please take time to investigate and let us know.
Also if you have any concerns about your own site being blocked it is easy to search with OpenDns and they were very helpful in correcting the situation. http://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/
If you know of other companies like OpenDNS that we should be checking do let us know.
Best
Kevin
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 22:50:59 PM +0000, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
Dear Friends,
I was travelling home from Dublin to Galway by bus at the beginning of January and using the on board wifi when I discovered that our domain p2pfoundation.net was blocked... Well I made a guess that Icomera get their blocklists from a thrid party.
this is the same general issue I found years ago about email: http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/02/who-cancels-your-email-warning-to-infostrada-... apart from that, I recommend you reformat this email of yours as a post on the p2p blog. in that way, whenever we want to inform other people of this issue, we can give them one link containing (unlike that to the list archives) many more examples that p2p isn't bad :-) Marco http://mfioretti.com
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 11:17:44 AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote:
apart from that, I recommend you reformat this email of yours as a post on the p2p blog. in that way, whenever we want to inform other people of this issue, we can give them one link containing (unlike that to the list archives) many more examples that p2p isn't bad :-)
by this I obviously mean only that people reading the list archives would NOT be stimulated to click on other blog posts at p2pfoundation.net and see what it's all about, not that the message here show that p2p is bad :-) Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you
2014/1/21, Kevin Flanagan <[email protected]>:
Dear Friends,
I was travelling home from Dublin to Galway by bus at the beginning of January and using the on board wifi when I discovered that our domain p2pfoundation.net was blocked. I emailed the tech support of the company who manage the wifi. They explained that we were categorised 'P2P' as in filesharing.
вообще обнаглели, я думал только в России в правительстве сидят дураки... (в России даже в министерстве связи поддерживают блокировку по IP всего сервера, прекрасно понимая что на том-же сервере хостятся тысячи других проектов - а если так, то я не вижу уже другого выхода, кроме полной замены всей государственной инфраструктуры связи на народные p2p сети. И, кстати, за одно можно будет решить проблемы с незаконными перехватами АНБ и СОРМ(ФСБ), мне знакомые правозащитники давно уже жалуются что используют СОРМ без всяких решений суда и т.п.) Недавно я придумал как коммерциализировать эту идею, превратив из слабых любительских проектов в мощный бизнес... Есть идеи, я знаю как это сделать и раскрутить. (кроме того, на этом можно будет так-же хорошо заработать, как и на росте bitcoin, я думаю услуги связи пользуются не меньшим надежным и постоянным спросом, чем товары SR ;) ) У меня есть идея создания независимой p2p сети для полной замены интернета, комбинированные как Wi-Fi/mesh, так и оптические и проводные сети... Дополнительно к этому будет своя внутренняя валюта для оплаты услуги связи... (так-же я придумал новый метод майнинга, который приведет к развитию инфраструктуры сети. Это вместо наращивания мощности хайтечных asic нагревательных приборов ;) ) https://sites.google.com/site/crucurrency/examples/ideas-mix Если интересно, могу написать подробнее, отвечу на вопросы. Vladimir PS для быстрого создания независимых междугородних и международных линий связи можно использовать геодезические вышки("знаки") - между ними всегда есть прямая видимость, геодезический знак всегда устанавливается так, чтобы было видно 3 другие вышки координатной сети... На эти вышки можно поставить Wi-Fi с направленными антеннами и очень быстро организовать каналы связи и полное покрытие территории связью... (то есть, между городами можно не только использовать гейты на готовые интернет-линии связи, но быстро создать свои независимые линии связи! То есть, подвести интернет быстрее, чем протянут туда магистральный кабель) https://www.google.ru/search?q=%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1... http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Геодезический_знак (В очень многих местах, как известно, до сих пор нет надежного интернета) PPS кто-нить знает русский и английский достаточно хорошо, чтобы корректировать переводы? google/yandex translate не обеспечивают достаточного качества, как показала практика, желательно чтобы перевод корректировал специалист для кого переводимый язык родной. (так-же я думаю имеет смысл написать на английском для kickstarter и биткоинстартера, на русском языке не удается собрать donate даже для более важного системо-образующего проекта https://sites.google.com/site/crucurrency/donate )
participants (4)
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Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis -
Kevin Flanagan -
M. Fioretti -
Vladimir Teplouhov