Web blocked!

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:16 pm

The computer where I work has the misfortune of sharing the High School's web connection from across the street which has an extensive web block in place for it's students.

We don't do much computer work around here so it's rarely noticed but I would like to find a work around short of actually talking to the IT manager at the High School myself so that I can vist places like youtube in my free time.

The block seems to be url/domain based. When I try to load a blocked page it automatically redirects me to the High scool website.

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youtube.com becomes ->
http://www.lghs.net/?DOMAIN=youtube.com&CATEGORY=adult&OBJ=Content%20Filtering

A google search for the word 'proxy' becomes ->
http://www.lghs.net/?MSG=The%20search%20keyword%20%22proxy%22%20is%20categorized
%20as%20local-block%20and%20blocked%20by%20the%20content%20filter.
&CATEGORY=local-block&OBJ=Content%20Filtering

Does anyone recognize that kind of web block? And is there a way around it?

I thought proxies might be the solution so I pulled up a list of public proxy servers and tried several of those. However, it appears the block sees right through that. Or possibly I was using them wrong. Is the website url supposed to change when routing your requests through a proxy?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:02 am

If you have a computer on the Internet available, set up an SSH server on it. Then you can tunnel SOCKS5 over SSH and get a clean (albeit slower) connection to the outside world.

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:25 am

It's one computer, an EMac running OS X.
I saw an option for SOCKS5 in Firefox when I was messing with proxies. Not sure how I would go about setting up an SSH server on it though. Is that something I could do on a computer outside the block or would it need to be on the local network? Also could you explain how tunneling works?

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:10 pm

http://www.boingboing.net/censorroute.html

boingboing has a page dedicated to overcomming censorware. they're pretty sharp ppl

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:40 pm

Thanks for the link. There's alot of info there I'm going through it now.