Re: antisocial security

2012-02-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message , Denys > Fedoryshchenko >  writes: >>  On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:10:05 +0100, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: >> > and, i noticed the problem because i can not get to the web site at >> >     http://www.ssa.gov/ from tokyo. >> > >> > Lot's of

Re: antisocial security

2012-02-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Denys Fedoryshchenko writes: > On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:10:05 +0100, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > > and, i noticed the problem because i can not get to the web site at > > http://www.ssa.gov/ from tokyo. > > > > Lot's of .gov web sites are not available outside (at least what > > someb

Re: antisocial security

2012-02-02 Thread Denys Fedoryshchenko
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:10:05 +0100, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: and, i noticed the problem because i can not get to the web site at http://www.ssa.gov/ from tokyo. Lot's of .gov web sites are not available outside (at least what somebody thinks is outside) the US. jaap Just tested: Leban

Re: antisocial security

2012-02-02 Thread Randy Bush
> Lot's of .gov web sites are not available outside (at least what > somebody thinks is outside) the US. it turns out to be local to my net segment ip space, we think. it is reachable from other networks in japan and even at least two other segments in iij. still debugging randy

Re: antisocial security

2012-02-02 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
and, i noticed the problem because i can not get to the web site at http://www.ssa.gov/ from tokyo. Lot's of .gov web sites are not available outside (at least what somebody thinks is outside) the US. jaap

Re: antisocial security

2012-02-01 Thread Owen DeLong
It's not uncommon (although I would agree it is ill advised) practice for some web sites that think they cater only to an audience in a particular geography to block access outside of that geography. I ran across this when my credit union would not let me connect to their web server from S. Korea.

antisocial security

2012-02-01 Thread Randy Bush
from a stateside host psg.com:/usr/home/randy> dig ssa.gov. ns ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> ssa.gov. ns ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37734 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ssa