[P2P-F] Web Filters Blocking P2PFoundation.net

Tue Jan 21 06:02:00 CET 2014

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 <kev.flanagan at gmail.com> 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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