Corporate Intranet blocks access to PH

Corporate Intranet blocks access to PH

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Emley

Original Poster:

352 posts

253 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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Yikes

Just had a warning from Corporate Intranet that Pistonheads is unsuitable site and will be blocked!

Nice knowing ya...

burriana500

16,556 posts

261 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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Get them to unblock it between 17.30 and 09.00 and between 13.00 - 14.00

Bob the Planner

4,695 posts

276 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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I am awaiting a similar fate from our IT dept. Use it while you can !

MOD500

2,686 posts

257 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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You can use www.petrolheads.co.uk to access PH too, that was the sites original name I think.

>> Edited by MOD500 on Monday 25th October 12:27

chris_crossley

1,164 posts

290 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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Hi,

Bit geek but if you can get Pistonheads IP address you can use that as well. Some Admin's only block the site name. This is an example http://192.168.0.10 i don't actually know its IP address. Maybe Ted could pass this information on? I have used it in the past with external email blocking as well

ian8542

615 posts

259 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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Emley said:
Yikes

Just had a warning from Corporate Intranet that Pistonheads is unsuitable site and will be blocked!

Nice knowing ya...




Head down now get some proper work done!

>> Edited by ian8542 on Monday 25th October 20:39

docevi1

10,430 posts

255 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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chris_crossley said:
Bit geek but if you can get Pistonheads IP address you can use that as well. Some Admin's only block the site name. This is an example <a href="http://192.168.0.10">http://192.168.0.10</a> i don't actually know its IP address. Maybe Ted could pass this information on? I have used it in the past with external email blocking as well

http://195.225.218.59 is the one you get when searching on www.pistonheads.com, but it don't work

However, that's kinda against the point - if it's getting banned and you find a work-around you'll get in more trouble...

>> Edited by docevi1 on Monday 25th October 20:44

simon.b

1,230 posts

289 months

Monday 25th October 2004
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Our place has blocked it for months now, but only the Forum, if anyone has any thoughts on how to get round this I’ll try it and s*d em.

woody_450

452 posts

244 months

Tuesday 26th October 2004
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Buy a laptop

I just use their phone bill instead!! Ok it's a bit/lot slower but the internet grinds to a halt during and after lunchtime here anyway!!

Ok it's a costly workaround, I'll get my coat...

Rich

chris_crossley

1,164 posts

290 months

Tuesday 26th October 2004
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docevi1 said:

chris_crossley said:
Bit geek but if you can get Pistonheads IP address you can use that as well. Some Admin's only block the site name. This is an example <a href="http://192.168.0.10"><a href="http://192.168.0.10">http://192.168.0.10</a></a> i don't actually know its IP address. Maybe Ted could pass this information on? I have used it in the past with external email blocking as well


<a href="http://195.225.218.59">http://195.225.218.59</a> is the one you get when searching on www.pistonheads.com, but it don't work

However, that's kinda against the point - if it's getting banned and you find a work-around you'll get in more trouble...

>> Edited by docevi1 on Monday 25th October 20:44


It needs to be pistonhead IP. Then one on the list is petrol heads IP. You get petrolheads page but no further.

J_S_G

6,177 posts

257 months

Thursday 28th October 2004
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If you're willing to read but not post, then you can get a remote web-proxy.

Plenty of other options too involving things like installing local authenticating proxy-servers on your PC to make sure the corporate firewall's not blocking the ports needed to get a remote connection up to a home PC, run RDC to that, then browse from there to your heart's content, etc.

All gets a bit complicated.

chim_girl

6,268 posts

266 months

Thursday 28th October 2004
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Emley said:
Just had a warning from Corporate Intranet that Pistonheads is unsuitable site and will be blocked!

Really!!!? Just how much time were you spending on there?!

BTW, It's still working for me.

Emley

Original Poster:

352 posts

253 months

Thursday 28th October 2004
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woody_450 said:
Buy a laptop

I just use their phone bill instead!! Ok it's a bit/lot slower but the internet grinds to a halt during and after lunchtime here anyway!!

Ok it's a costly workaround, I'll get my coat...

Rich



It is a laptop....... and yes our internet grinds to a halt at lunchtime here too.......

.........So bought my own hard drive for it, job done.

Regards

Emley

Original Poster:

352 posts

253 months

Thursday 28th October 2004
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chim_girl said:

Emley said:
Just had a warning from Corporate Intranet that Pistonheads is unsuitable site and will be blocked!


Really!!!? Just how much time were you spending on there?!

BTW, It's still working for me.


Spending hardly any time, and always lunchtime or after 5pm.

It is still working, but had a pop-up warning from administrators, it may just have been some content on the thread at the time.

Regards

Chim_Girl

6,268 posts

266 months

Thursday 28th October 2004
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Emley said:
...had a pop-up warning from administrators.....


Crikey, I didn't think we were that advanced!

Glad you're back, I thought I was going to have to send internal mail telling you when the next events were happening.

simon.b

1,230 posts

289 months

Friday 5th November 2004
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Read only is better than nothing, so how do I get this proxy thing going.

BT&J_S_G

6,177 posts

257 months

Friday 5th November 2004
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simon.b said:
Read only is better than nothing, so how do I get this proxy thing going.

Well... it depends on how savvy your Network bods are. The simplest thing is to go through a site like http://proxify.com/. That'll just take your web requests for PistonHeads and forward them on, all through a web page. It's then just a matter of how long before they block that site.

The alternative is to use a proper proxy server. It's too late in the evening to go into the nuances of proxy chaining now, but this site's got everything you should need on it (and the page below answers all the initial questions):

www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/proxy_servers_faq

simon.b

1,230 posts

289 months

Thursday 18th November 2004
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Yee Haaa !!!!

I’m back on at work, don’t know for how long.

Still haven’t tried the poxy thing, these sites are blocked too.