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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Jaruzel on Wednesday March 12 2014, @09:00AM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @09:00AM (#15117) Homepage Journal

    Corporate proxys/firewalls such as Fortigate tend to block based on blacklists either provided by the supplier and/or maintained internally. As pipedot.org (and SN.org) is a tech news site, you should be able to ask your IT people to unblock it. It's possible that pipedot.org hasn't be classified yet, so is blocked by default (some places do that).

    -Jar

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by francois on Wednesday March 12 2014, @06:26PM

    by francois (3010) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @06:26PM (#15429)

    Having your own IRC service is absolutely not a guarantee that it won't be blocked by corporate filtering.

    Today, soylentnews.org is seen as Information Technology so will probably never be blocked by most filtering policies.
    The web chat (chat.sylnt.org) is uncategorized. Most companies (if not all, in some regions) tend to BLOCK when it's uncategorized.
    CISO feels safer, as users will not go to the uncategorized Internet. Support/admins cry, as they have to micro manage all the exceptions for the end users.

    Of course, asking your BOFH to open a site for you might not be a good idea so the best way to make sure it's not blocked is to ask to the vendors. Most of them allow this, either via a web page or through an email.
    Fortinet : http://docs-legacy.fortinet.com/cb/html/index.html #page/FOS_Cookbook/UTM/cb_utm_wf_url_check.html [fortinet.com]
    Websense : http://csi.websense.com/ [websense.com]
    ZScaler : http://zulu.zscaler.com/ [zscaler.com]
    Bluecoat : https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp [bluecoat.com]
    (etc...)

    HTH !

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    • (Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Thursday March 13 2014, @09:41AM

      by Jaruzel (812) on Thursday March 13 2014, @09:41AM (#15774) Homepage Journal

      Actually that does help me - thanks very much. It's quite hard digging up all those classification URLs for the different services, so I've bookmarked the above, Cheers.
      (I'm having a classification issue with one of my own domains).

      -Jar

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