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Bush's website not accessible from outside the US?
Anyone knows anything more about this? According to newssites here in Sweden for some reason people from Asia and Europe are not allowed to access the Bush website anymore. Now, if this is intentional I find it kind of disturbing. What about the americans abroad that is going to vote and now cannot access the web site of their president?
I tried going there myself and was greeted by the message: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.georgewbush.com/" on this server. Using an american proxy it is no problem accessing it, so the website isn't down or anything, and it is no problem getting to Kerrys website. This seems a little weird to me... |
Well the guy is zenophobic. I guess he knows that hackers the world over would love a piece of his site.
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I doubt this is something intentionally done by the Bush campaign.
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Could this also be the complete responsibility of that foreign country blocking the site? :hmm:
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Interesting.
How else could it happen? Just "a mistake" perhaps? Here's what I get from Australia Quote:
I think it's intentional, as I can't see how else it would occur. Mr Mephisto |
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Also, assuming that the originating country doesn't own all the internet infrastructure in that country including satelite connections, they couldn't block anything. |
Well, surprise surprise.
Works perfectly for me when I VPN into my company's San Jose network and access the site from there. In other words, the web-site explicitly blocks access from IP addresses from overseas (Australia at least), but allows sessions from US ISPs. How interesting and sad at the same time... Mr Mephisto |
It's entirely possible rukkyg.
And it's happening. So explain that away... Mr Mephisto |
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There are central points of access for all regional internet access, so it's not difficult to block certain sites or types of traffic. |
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Just so I understand your position though, are you justifying this? From George W Bush? The leader of the "Free World"? The President of the United States? The Commander in Chief? Champion of Freedom (including Freedom of Information I should expect)? Just curious... Mr Mephisto |
I didn't realize Bush was running for President of Earth.
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BTW, if anyone is interested, I can check if the site is blocked from Amsterdam, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Singapore, Bangalore, Milan, Johannesburg and several locations through-out the US.
Just let me know and I'll check it out if you want. Mr Mephisto |
I would bet that this is an anti-DDOS (distributed denial of service) measure.
Hmmm....after digging a little, it looks like that suspicion was correct: See yahoo news: Quote:
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No, hang on a minute. You didn't. Silly me. Mr Mephisto |
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Either way, it's a poor decision. Mr Mephisto |
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I checked the Democrats web-site from Sydney and the US.
No problem accessing it from either. Mr Mephisto |
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But, as I said, it's a poor decision. Let's wait and see what the real reason is. If it's security related, one would think they could simply improve their site security rather than block the rest of the world from accessing their leader's web-site. Mr Mephisto |
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The French forced Yahoo! to block French from accessing their site. France didn't block anything. So Boya. And no, there aren't central access points. That's the whole point. The whole system is designed to be able to go through different routing points to different hubs distributed throughout the system so that traffic can be routed to less congested routes. Note that I acknowledge the presence of hubs, but not that you HAVE to go through one particular hub, certainly not one that the government can control. |
For the router-imparied:
This is not a difficult process at all. Every country has a specific set of finite connections that lead into and out of the country. All traffic in and out has to go over those connections, be they landline or sat. All a router has to do is filter any traffic that passes over those points. Also, large blocks of Class A, B and C addresses are KNOWN non-US ISP addresses. Blokcing whole groups of classful addresses can also banish a vast majority of foreign browsers. There are other ways this can be done, but those would be the easiest to implement and still have sweeping effects. |
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I was simply stating that blocking "incoming" from outside the US was very easy and that it was happening, as evidenced by the news story and the fact that several non-US surfers were prevented accessing the site. Mr Mephisto |
In canada and was able to access the site on my first attempt.
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i just had a go at getting on to the site. Not working for me either. I don't care at least there are so many sites that i can visit. I'm sure if someone asked Bush to fix it for us he would. He did after all fix the last election. hehehe
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As was previously mentioned, those international posters that just have to visit Bush's site can use an American proxy server to reach it. Apparently, whoever hosts the site doesn't have the hardware or know how to filter out attacking IPs only and had to resort to blocking off large sections of the world.
As most here probably know, I'm not much of a Bush fan but I don't think that this is a political issue at all. |
Well, I stand corrected....
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The leader of the free world indeed.
This is just pathetic. Mr Mephisto |
Hands up all those outside the US or Canada who don't already know who George W Bush is but need to!
There's always http://www.georgewbush.org instead. |
<i>You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------</i> From the UK.... |
That's really, really sad. Sick.
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Wow. I hadn't looked at this thread because I thought it was just a silly joke or technical misunderstanding.
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Sounds like more trouble from "the Internets."
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