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$ curl -I filesonic.com HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Server: nginx Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:21:29 GMT Content-Type: text/html Locati

$ curl -I filesonic.com HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Server: nginx Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:21:29 GMT Content-Type: text/html Location: http://www.filesonic.com/ Age: 0 Via: HTTP/1.1 webcache1-know.server.virginmedia.net (Traffic-Server/5.7.0-59705 [cMs f ]) Note that I can still download from those site at will. It doesnt look like they're actually blocking anything. I'm on the 10mbit service, which is on a different network to the 50mbit+ plans. Virgin have stiffed me before with deep packet inspection, but this one is new to me. Time to persuade my new housemates that changing to DSL is a good idea... Or figure some more elegant way around it. Any ideas? Hooking up openDNS at the router level is on my list, but I doubt that will help.

dspillett 16y ago
If they are not using a transparent proxy to pick up the HTTP traffic then using OpenDNS or Google's public DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) will help. If they are going as far as inspecting http traffic (and selectively editing/blocking some of it) with a transparently proxy rather than redirecting selected domains via DNS poisoning then your only way around this is some sort of VPN which of course requires a host elsewhere for the VPN server to run on (unless you use something like Tor, but that is very slow and may cause the same "many people from a small set of IP addresses" problem itself anyway due to the relatively limited number of exit nodes).
- barrkel 16y ago
  Customer requests are redirected by ISPs to the transparent proxy on an IP:port basis. DNS is not poisoned; using a different DNS will not affect how it works. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf I personally use a cheap VPS located in the US to get around IP geolocation (e.g. occasional Youtube videos, Hulu etc.), and it can also circumvent this, though I have never had cause to - my Be Pro account does not block filesonic.com, for example.
iuguy 16y ago
Get a VPS with an unlimited bandwidth deal and set up openvpn, strongswan or even an SSH vpn (works under linux only). Get your default gateway to connect up permanently and route as much or as little traffic as you want through it. I use this for things like Hulu, so I can watch iPlayer in the UK and Hulu in the US from the same location.
- nkassis 16y ago
  You can use putty and firefox to do sock proxy on windows. When configuring a connection in Putty add a port for dynamic forwarding (under connection -> ssh -> tunnels, put something like 4999 in the source port, select the Dynamic radio button and click add next to the source port) Then in firefox you can setup a socket proxy (in options, under advanced settings -> connection settings select manual proxy then add 127.0.0.1 and port 4999.) This should be enough to get around it. I use this to secure my connection while on other peoples laptop (work etc..)
  - iuguy 16y ago
    I use this in conjunction with the FoxyProxy[1] extension sometimes to get around censorship in some countries. Good call on writing it up here, I missed it. [1] - http://getfoxyproxy.org/ http://getfoxyproxy.org/

dspillett 16y ago

If they are not using a transparent proxy to pick up the HTTP traffic then using OpenDNS or Google's public DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) will help. If they are going as far as inspecting http traffic (and selectively editing/blocking some of it) with a transparently proxy rather than redirecting selected domains via DNS poisoning then your only way around this is some sort of VPN which of course requires a host elsewhere for the VPN server to run on (unless you use something like Tor, but that is very slow and may cause the same "many people from a small set of IP addresses" problem itself anyway due to the relatively limited number of exit nodes).

barrkel 16y ago
Customer requests are redirected by ISPs to the transparent proxy on an IP:port basis. DNS is not poisoned; using a different DNS will not affect how it works. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf I personally use a cheap VPS located in the US to get around IP geolocation (e.g. occasional Youtube videos, Hulu etc.), and it can also circumvent this, though I have never had cause to - my Be Pro account does not block filesonic.com, for example.

iuguy 16y ago

Get a VPS with an unlimited bandwidth deal and set up openvpn, strongswan or even an SSH vpn (works under linux only). Get your default gateway to connect up permanently and route as much or as little traffic as you want through it. I use this for things like Hulu, so I can watch iPlayer in the UK and Hulu in the US from the same location.

nkassis 16y ago
You can use putty and firefox to do sock proxy on windows. When configuring a connection in Putty add a port for dynamic forwarding (under connection -> ssh -> tunnels, put something like 4999 in the source port, select the Dynamic radio button and click add next to the source port) Then in firefox you can setup a socket proxy (in options, under advanced settings -> connection settings select manual proxy then add 127.0.0.1 and port 4999.) This should be enough to get around it. I use this to secure my connection while on other peoples laptop (work etc..)
- iuguy 16y ago
  I use this in conjunction with the FoxyProxy[1] extension sometimes to get around censorship in some countries. Good call on writing it up here, I missed it. [1] - http://getfoxyproxy.org/ http://getfoxyproxy.org/