What sites do sky block?

[budwieser]

Hi all.
Do sky block any websites?
For instance, i use www.rapidshare.com for uploading videos and pictures so that my family and friends can see us and our grand-daughter etc as my father lives in france.
As of tonight i can`t access rapidshare, i can access rapidshare.de and every other website you can think of but not rapidshare.com.
Anyone else having this problem or is it just me? could someone try it for me please and let me know if they can get on it.
Cheers.

I doubt sky block any websites, certainly not rapidshare - I would look elsewhere for your problem.

[Fatec]

Quite the contrary, its rapidshare who block certain sky/easynet ips...

[Hom3r]

I can see it

[budwieser]

Originally Posted by TraxData2

Quite the contrary, its rapidshare who block certain sky/easynet ips...

I`ve been with them for about 4 month`s now and never had a problem accessing the site until tonight.
Maybe it was just down or something.
Cheers for the advice all.

[Paul K]

Sky don't block any sites like that, as far as I know they don't block any sites fullstop. There were a number of outages last night but I would expect that you just got hit by a routing problem.

[budwieser]

Originally Posted by Paul

Sky don't block any sites like that, as far as I know they don't block any sites fullstop. There were a number of outages last night but I would expect that you just got hit by a routing problem.

Works fine tonight, must have been down or something. Cheers all as usual.

[Ignitionnet]

The only sites that would be blocked by Sky/Easynet would be those less than savoury sites that are filtered by Cleanfeed.

[Chrysalis]

there is an ongoing thread at the moment on thinkbroadband about this.

its emerged ukonline/easynet are using some kind of filtering proxy for http traffic, but there is a little dispute into what the proxy is actually doing. Since sky also use easynet its likely the same is applying to both sky and ukonline.

My assumption is easynet are routing ips that are known to have hosted illegal content via their filtering proxy so they can filter out illegal content, eg. so they can enforce the IWF list. Rapidshare is probably one such site that hosts that kind of content so it is filtered via the proxy.

The problem that has arisen is that rapidshare are not using the x-forwarded-for header and as such using the proxy ip instead of the end user ip and banning for reasons such as wrong password flooding.

One user on thinkbroadband claims easynet are proxying everything and not doing any filtering but I see no evidence suppporting that and I feel its more likely just a few specific ip addresses get routed via the proxy.

[Gordon_30]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

The only sites that would be blocked by Sky/Easynet would be those less than savoury sites that are filtered by Cleanfeed.

All the less than savoury sites that I know are not blocked by sky/easynet

of course a good few of them need blocked