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Sorry if this is covered somewhere already, I really don't venture into this subforum very often. Last week I was at a jobsite that had some aggressive web filtering going on that kept me away from foh. So I'm looking for tips on how to beat it next time. I won't be able to try anything anyone suggests, but I'll copy it into a text file and keep it with me for next time.
Before I go into what I tried, I want to answer the obvious question, No I'm not worried about getting fired for visiting this site from the jobsite. I might get in trouble for looking at porn, but even then probably wouldn't lose my job. In this case, the jobsite is an offshore platform, so I'm there 24 hours a day. Nobody is going to care about me wasting time when I'm off tower, as long as no one sees me looking at porn.
I did not get any screenshots of the errors. For the most part, it was going to a redirect and saying the page could not be found. A few times the redirect page came up with the company logo and said it had been blocked, and if I disagreed I could continue and my activities would be logged (oooh scary). I clicked continue and then it went to the page not found error. There was nothing on the pages that indicated why it was blocked. Next time this happens, I might use twitter or suenig's email to get help, but I didn't have either of those available at the time. Actually, I probably could have gotten suenigs email, but I didn't think of it, and I was spending all my time trying to figure the shit out myself.
First thing I tried was the obvious address corrections. I tried with and without the https and I tried rererolled. Then I tried some proxies. Problem with the proxies is that every one I tried seemed to be blocked. I found a list of about 200 and tried just pinging them and none worked. I started doubting whether you're even supposed to be able to ping a proxy, but eventually I found a site that would check if another site was a proxy, and it was able to ping proxies. I figured they might have the same list of proxies I was getting off the internet, so I reached out to some people to get some private proxies to try. I only got 2 and neither of them worked. In fairness, one might not have even been active anymore. It was a proxy for another company that I had from years ago.
After that, I started wondering if it was DNS blocking, so I tried a couple of public DNS. Google was the only one that worked, but even with that I couldn't get to this site. By 'worked', I meant that I could get to any site at all. The only way I could find to get to this site was by using google translate or google mobilizer as a proxy, but both of those strip out all the CSS and the site was unusable. I was able to ping firesofheaven.org with no problem.
I think that's all I tried. I was only out there like 4 days and a lot of the websites I was trying for help were blocked too. I should add that youtube was also blocked and a couple of guys said they had no trouble getting to youtube, but they wouldn't tell me how they did it. Just smiled when I asked. So there is a way. Anyone got any ideas about how they were blocking and/or how to get around it?
Before I go into what I tried, I want to answer the obvious question, No I'm not worried about getting fired for visiting this site from the jobsite. I might get in trouble for looking at porn, but even then probably wouldn't lose my job. In this case, the jobsite is an offshore platform, so I'm there 24 hours a day. Nobody is going to care about me wasting time when I'm off tower, as long as no one sees me looking at porn.
I did not get any screenshots of the errors. For the most part, it was going to a redirect and saying the page could not be found. A few times the redirect page came up with the company logo and said it had been blocked, and if I disagreed I could continue and my activities would be logged (oooh scary). I clicked continue and then it went to the page not found error. There was nothing on the pages that indicated why it was blocked. Next time this happens, I might use twitter or suenig's email to get help, but I didn't have either of those available at the time. Actually, I probably could have gotten suenigs email, but I didn't think of it, and I was spending all my time trying to figure the shit out myself.
First thing I tried was the obvious address corrections. I tried with and without the https and I tried rererolled. Then I tried some proxies. Problem with the proxies is that every one I tried seemed to be blocked. I found a list of about 200 and tried just pinging them and none worked. I started doubting whether you're even supposed to be able to ping a proxy, but eventually I found a site that would check if another site was a proxy, and it was able to ping proxies. I figured they might have the same list of proxies I was getting off the internet, so I reached out to some people to get some private proxies to try. I only got 2 and neither of them worked. In fairness, one might not have even been active anymore. It was a proxy for another company that I had from years ago.
After that, I started wondering if it was DNS blocking, so I tried a couple of public DNS. Google was the only one that worked, but even with that I couldn't get to this site. By 'worked', I meant that I could get to any site at all. The only way I could find to get to this site was by using google translate or google mobilizer as a proxy, but both of those strip out all the CSS and the site was unusable. I was able to ping firesofheaven.org with no problem.
I think that's all I tried. I was only out there like 4 days and a lot of the websites I was trying for help were blocked too. I should add that youtube was also blocked and a couple of guys said they had no trouble getting to youtube, but they wouldn't tell me how they did it. Just smiled when I asked. So there is a way. Anyone got any ideas about how they were blocking and/or how to get around it?
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