Crazy ISP /b/ blockers.

If you're one of the unlucky people for whom /b/ is blocked, you'll probably know BT and NTL are the blockers.

My ISP is NTL, and while looking at the source file for the 404 page you get when trying to get to /b/, I found a broken image link with this url:

http://data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/test.img

Going to the parent directory, http://data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net, I found some interesting stuff. There's a few .htm files such as this one http://data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/ink.htm , which just contain the phrase  "You should never see this page in real life". Hmmmm....

Looking in the /ehealth directory there's even more random crap, what the heck does this image have to do with.. well.. anything?!?

http://data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/ehealth/1.jpg

This one here looks like it might be one of those 3D-glasses images

http://data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/ehealth/nasa2.jpg

Poke around more people, this is really odd.

>>1
LOL @ UK

Enjoy your aids, censored internet and learn to use proxy.

Time for me to switch ISP then.

First they tell me I can no longer use the service as much as I want, and now they have the nerve to dictate what sites I can and can not go to? this is Scotland, not fucking China.

http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sasssss0ww.jpg

Let's try e-mailing them, and see what they say about blocking it.

ntl are fucking stupid
http//securebar.secure/...

thnx ntl:Hell

This seems to be a webcache-related thing. Therefore, the solution would be to bypass the NTL proxy. The only way to do this is to specify your own proxy. The solution, therefore, is to set up a local proxy on your PC (Privoxy should be able to do it), and then use that instead of the transparent NTL proxy.

Privoxy grabs stuff from the normal /b/, but then also retrieves that page and displays it. I don't get what's going on -- the cache should be entirely bypassed now.

localhost:8118

Jun 10 20:37:13 Privoxy(03132) Request: img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:13 Privoxy(06076) Request: data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/test.img
Jun 10 20:37:16 Privoxy(06116) Request: img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:16 Privoxy(02860) Request: data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/test.img
Jun 10 20:37:19 Privoxy(05708) Request: www.finestresults.com/.jt?uid=239173&nw=0&cid=3220&bf=0&bt=1&wd=720&hg=120&nl=2&bo=1&tpq=ImageShack+Hosting+sasssss0ww+jpg&tm=1&ps=2398&pi=2398&bl=http%3A//img73.imageshack.us/my.php%3Fimage%3Dsasssss0ww.jpg&bi=0&ad=2&sz=1&rw=&fc=1&ml=0&tmp=5931433
Jun 10 20:37:23 Privoxy(05748) Request: img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:23 Privoxy(03588) Request: data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/test.img
Jun 10 20:37:25 Privoxy(02404) Request: img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:26 Privoxy(05420) Request: data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/test.img
Jun 10 20:37:26 Privoxy(03976) Request: img.4chan.org/favicon.ico
Jun 10 20:37:29 Privoxy(05316) Request: zip.4chan.org/a/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:32 Privoxy(04600) Request: content.4chan.org/css/burichan.css
Jun 10 20:37:33 Privoxy(02476) Request: content.4chan.org/css/futaba.css
Jun 10 20:37:33 Privoxy(05476) Request: bin.4chan.org/script.js
Jun 10 20:37:35 Privoxy(03356) Request: zip.4chan.org/an/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:36 Privoxy(05112) Request: zip.4chan.org/an/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:37 Privoxy(01052) Request: img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html
Jun 10 20:37:37 Privoxy(04652) Request: data-ops4-glfd.server.ntli.net/test.img

Since other directories work fine on img.4chan.org, the easiest solution, and the most sensible one, would be for the server administrator to provide an alias directory through editing of the Apache config, or the creation or editing of .htaccess files.

i.e. http://img.4chan.org/z/ or whatever.

I have mitigated this block. Simply put a question mark after imgboard.html -- all other pages work thereafter. If you want to post, then you can do so, but it will redirect you to imgboard.html, and you will need to put the ? after it again to get to page 0.

http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html?

Have fun.

Fuck NTL, I'd switch ISP if they'd fucking let me.

>>2

NTL is actually dutch

this explains the gestapo like ideas!

>>7
how do you do this?

>>12
That's bit surprising. Knowing that typically dutch tend to be very openminded especially with sex and drugs.

>>14
Perhaps not during World Cup... lol

>>14

Netherlands Telephone Providers or something

>>15
Well, those guys have lots of porn(I think majority of European porn originates there), open legal brothels, infamous coffee shops, pedo party, many gay and even pedo oriented "bookstores" and that's not even all of it.

But are we doing the right thing bypassing this? Don't want the party van at MY door myself.

I dunno, it's a scary thing when you think about it. Any other sites you know of that are blocked like this? Likely only fucked up sites no human being should go on that are being blocked. /b/ is classed as this now? What gives?

/b/ does not encourage pedophilia or anything, and it is always cleaned up if anything if posted. This is not /b/'s fault, therefore the imageboard should not be blocked.

>>18
Dunno, but seriously you should move away from there if you live in so bad police state that bypassing censorship is illegal.
>>19
Neither should any site be blocked. Not even CP(should be busted not blocked). Blocking sites is completely unneeded and serves no-one.

Having looked at the IWF's complaints procedure, unless you wanna get fingered by your local police dept, its not worth it.

>>21
For using a proxy? Is it really that bad in UK?

>>4
FTW

savetheinternet.com << join people

>>22
Nah if ya we wanted the b board url removed from the IWF's database, then it gets relooked at, then passed onto the police to look at so on an so forth and Im sure if it was found STILL bad and wrong - then the complaintant would get a knock at the door for complaining... :)

I went to the IWF's site: http://www.iwf.org.uk a nd I noticed this description of their services:

The UK hotline for reporting illegal content specifically:
Child abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.

We may not have child abuse, but I'll be damned if there isn't racial hatred. Bix nood etc anyone? Could well be the reason. Crazy I know, but, that's what they're after.

I just checked out IWF - it seems you can't even tell which sites are on the ban list unless you subscribe thousands per year and become a 'member' - talk about big brother.  On top of this, IWF has managed to get itself a 'registered charity' status lol.

>>26
>>27
There's a reason why you should move away from such dying police state that UK is.

>>28

Send me some money and I'm out of here.

Latest news ....

For those from the UK who were using secure-tunnel to access /b/, some effing pedo has used it and got us all banned for TWO WEEKS by posting CP.   God I hate pedos.

Face it, /b/'s dead to anyone in the UK. Go find a new place to post at - that's what I'm doing. Pedos have officially killed /b/. Enjoy your pedo porn site.

>>31
Yeah you're probably right.  I doubt the BT/NTL ban will be removed because the mods on /b/ are just too damned slow at clearing off the CP for it to be re-assessed.  When you run a board that gets around 250,000 posts a week you need to be on that shit in seconds, not half an hour or more.

>>32
I think /b/ block has more do with lolicon than real CP. Now it maybe legal in UK, but considering that they have banned many hentai movies and similar from import/sale it wouldn't surprise me.

>>33
Not true - the IWF can ONLY institiute a recommendation for a ban on international sites for CP activities.  Having said that, what is 'lolicon' anyway except a milder form of CP?  It's still the sexual exploitation of children via images/photos...

This really sucks

Its easy enough to get around, use the actual ip of the b board, or for the NTLers just add a ? to the url.

What is the boards ip?

And yeah, more to the point, what's the chances of getting busted for bypassing?

>>38

It's not illegal to bypass - neither BT or NTL have given out any official information that they have blocked the addresses, nor has /b/ been classified by the law in the UK as being an illegal one, it's just that some spanner decided to report /b/ to the IWF (of which BT and NTL are members), and some *cough* 'trained' analyst at IWF decided that it was a CP site and thus requested that BT/NTL as members should block access to it.  Presumably he visited it during one of the recent CP floods when the mods were fuck-knows-where / just not doing their jobs.

I'm an NTL user and it works fine for me if I just put img.4chan.org/b in the address bar