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Re: Floppies up for grabs

Charles . — 2012-05-25T09:54:24

Well they look OK; I actually re-formatted them myself to clear any
sensitive material.
There must be around 20, may find more.

Charles

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Warren Camilleri <warren-DbYLd9+NWuRWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

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Re: Floppies up for grabs

Warren Camilleri — 2012-05-24T11:21:43

Charles are they useable? And what is the quantity?

Best regards,
Warren Camilleri
Founding Father of OSSMalta

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Re: Floppies up for grabs

Ramon Casha — 2012-05-24T11:19:47

Wow, genuine antiques :)

Ramon Casha


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Floppies up for grabs

Charles . — 2012-05-24T10:05:25

Dear all,
As the title says I have some floppies on hand.
Interested?
Send me mail.

Charles
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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Warren — 2012-05-23T21:41:22

hi guys, 

If i may ask, if i have a go data key do you think its being "filtered" too? 

also my main home isp is Vodafone, and they don't really give a rats ass aslong as i pay for my services, and witha small contention ratio on thier wimax, i am quite pleased with a 5mb down and 1mb up... 

on the other hand this explains why i have been having connection issues at work with RDP's (ISP is GO) and if i am not mistaken isn't this a breach n net neutrality and customer service agreements? 

Best regards, 
Warren camilleri 
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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti — 2012-05-23T18:11:46

If your upstream provider is Google's DNS you can do two static routes to
use the vpn tunnel

Something on the following lines:

route add -net 8.8.8.8 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.68.1 tun0

Replace 192.168.68.1 with the gateway on the other side of your vpn and
tun0 with the device name created by your vpn

Tell me if it works out for you
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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Keith Vassallo — 2012-05-23T15:29:40

I do have a dd-wrt router enabled router and it also connects via VPN (that's how I get my Netflix!).

But I don't recall being able to select which traffic goes to the VPN and which not.

K

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti — 2012-05-23T10:01:38

Actually if you have DD-WRT its a piece of cake. I suggest it to any user
who has a home router which is dd-wrt compatible.
The benefits go well beyond the scope of this thread, but don't be
intimidated. Most VPN providers support dd-wrt.

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Victor Jerlin — 2012-05-23T08:53:26

tracker.thepiratebay.org should resolve to 127.0.0.1, and tracker.thepiratebay.se should not resolve
anywhere.

This is a decision made by the TPB founders due to the legal situation, this change was done about 1
to 2 years ago, and was made at the same time as they started using openbittorrent and publicbt instead
as trackers for their torrents (so that they could say that they didn't even host a tracker).

When it comes to TPB and Malta, the only times I've seen it blocked has been when I've been connected
via Melita and the traffic was routed through Italy.


When it comes to GO intercepting DNS packets, I find it abysmal of them.  On my home connection I don't
get DNS intercepted(at least not last I checked), but on my business connection to the office they do
it.  I've been in contact with them several times regarding it, since at *SEVERAL* occasions we've been
experiencing partial downtime (only get replies of about 70% of the questions asked to the nameserver).

I've been emailing them regarding this, and my last two emails when I've asked them to either fix the
problem or stop intercepting the traffic has been ignored, so now we have a Melita connection to the
office instead with GO just working as a backup.


/Victor

On 05/23/2012 10:37 AM, Keith Vassallo wrote:

Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Keith Vassallo — 2012-05-23T08:51:07

Agreed. 


Though its not so easy to setup a VPN, as well as rules to route DNS traffic to it. At least for the average user.

K

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti — 2012-05-23T08:49:19

Best thing I can suggest is running the DNS traffic over a VPN and hosting
a local DNS caching server on your network

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Anton Xuereb — 2012-05-23T08:47:33

that still wouldn't work as they simple capture all traffic on port 53 and
redirect transparently to their own servers

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Keith Vassallo — 2012-05-23T08:37:42

I personally stopped using GO a long time ago, and can proudly say that my house has NONE of GO's services... not even a fixed line.

Melita does not have this problem. Yet. Remember that by blocking trackers and bittorrent, they're not just bowing the IP holders, but more importantly for them they're hugely reducing the amount of bandwidth they need. 

I can't test this at home, because I'm on Melita, however...

Does GO have domains to point to its DNS servers, or just as IP? In the latter case you could modify your local hosts file to make the domain resolve to Google's DNS servers, or OpenDNS or something similar. 

K


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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Anton Xuereb — 2012-05-23T07:57:23

glad to have helped. P.S. Their 25mbit fibre with 1.5mbit upload is
deeeeeeeeliciousss

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Ramon Casha — 2012-05-23T07:55:59

I suspect that the nefarious role was the intended effect. Thanks for
telling me about Melita. I'll probably switch everything over pretty soon.


Ramon Casha


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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Ramon Casha — 2012-05-23T07:54:34

Since GO is intercepting all packets on port 53, you have to use port tcp
443:

dnscrypt -t 443


Ramon Casha


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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS (Ramon Casha)

Ramon Casha — 2012-05-23T07:48:46

I'm sure that if there was a court case against TPB in Malta we'd have
heard about it.


Ramon Casha


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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Paul Morley — 2012-05-23T07:25:27

Using tracker.thepiratebay.se does work OK with Melita without DNSCrypt.

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Anton Xuereb — 2012-05-23T07:23:44

Does it ? I doesn't resolve to anything here, and
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://tracker.thepiratebay.se
says it's down aswell.

Doing an nslookup using Google's DNS servers, it also doesn't resolve.


Server:8.8.8.8
Address:8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find tracker.thepiratebay.se: NXDOMAIN



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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

James Azzopardi — 2012-05-23T07:18:44

Using GO.

With DNSCrypt tracker.thepiratebay.se resolves
Without DNSCrypt it does not.

JAmes

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Re: GO.COM is blocking torrents - by sabotaging DNS

Anton Xuereb — 2012-05-23T07:18:05

P.S. Iv been on Melita for a very long time at home now and as far as
I can see, they don't do any of these shenanigans

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