I bought this for my boss yesterday.

[milefile]

At his direction, I purchased this internet firewall for my boss yesterday. Among other things it keeps track of visited websites and can block access to them, too. Of course the first thing that went through my mind is "this is the end of GTPlanet for me", since I almost never visit from home. That would be a big fat bummer. GTPlanet breaks up the monotony of my workday without interfering with my productivity, but I also understand that doesn't matter to the boss. I can only hope that he's getting it for it's firewall properties and not it's controlled access and tracking properties. It's possible. He is notoriously bad at following through on things and famous for being a severe air-head. I guess I'll find out.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Well, I shouldn't tell you this, but...

You should offer to help administer the firewall.

Then you create a rule that allows your machine, or your username, to access everything, and, most importantly, not create an entry in the log every time that rule is used.

Hey presto, untracked internet access.

 

[Flerbizky]

Check This... This is what we're running here at work. That's a nasty piece of software...

Allow me to quote from the page :

Websense Enterprise allows you to:

• Manage employee Internet access
• Block peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing
• Manage instant messaging
• Manage the use of streaming media and other high bandwidth applications
• Prevent spyware and malicious mobile code
• Stop employee hacking

At least I'm part of the managers....

 

[milefile]

I used to be more involved with the network but that past year or so he's been doing everything himself. I did have it shipped to my attetntion, so if I can, I'll go through the manual and learn how to use it so I can set it up "right".

 

[milefile]

I only hope he is concerned about the usual porn and stuff like that. Maybe GTP would slip in under the radar. It's hard to imagine him taking the time to actually check a logfile. But I could be wrong.

 

[Flerbizky]

Originally posted by milefile
I only hope he is concerned about the usual porn and stuff like that. Maybe GTP would slip in under the radar. It's hard to imagine him taking the time to actually check a logfile. But I could be wrong.

GTP is in Websenses' list of Game related sites

 

[Klostrophobic]

I'd like to be able to step around the firewall at school. For some reason it allows you to go to kazaa.com but not gtplanet.net. I guess it makes sense in that my school is ****ed up beyond all recognition, though.

My drafting teacher was absent for about a week and the ****ing moron substitute teacher downloads and installs KaZaA on the computer I normally use. I'd uninstall it, then it would be back the next day downloading a bunch og Tupac and Eminem ****. ****ing moron. Did I say he was/is a ****ing moron?

Tangents are kinda fun.

 

[[Jetstorm]-R]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
I'd like to be able to step around the firewall at school. For some reason it allows you to go to kazaa.com but not gtplanet.net. I guess it makes sense in that my school is ****ed up beyond all recognition, though.

My drafting teacher was absent for about a week and the ****ing moron substitute teacher downloads and installs KaZaA on the computer I normally use. I'd uninstall it, then it would be back the next day downloading a bunch og Tupac and Eminem ****. ****ing moron. Did I say he was/is a ****ing moron?

Tangents are kinda fun.

hahah.. a teacher ? I highly doubt that would actually happen

 

[Matrixhasu77]

Originally posted by Flerbizky
GTP is in Websenses' list of Game related sites

My school started using that last year. I get bored sometimes when I have nothing to do during my study hall (I'm an assistant, study hall is boring... They won't even let people sleep in there now) because they block GTP. Oddly enough though, they don't block Redvsblue.com even though that's related to Halo.

 

[DGB454]

Originally posted by Flerbizky
Check This... This is what we're running here at work. That's a nasty piece of software...

Allow me to quote from the page :



At least I'm part of the managers....

That's very similar to the package we installed. You will be amazed how much time is spent on the net by the people you work with. We get an hour lunch so we overlook the lunchtime hour that people spend on the net (as long as it's not porn)
Even though I'm one of the managers locally I am still under the same rules for internet use that the rest are. GTP is one of those blocked with our software also. Basically all forums are though so it's pretty fair.

 

[Super-Supra]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
I'd like to be able to step around the firewall at school. For some reason it allows you to go to kazaa.com but not gtplanet.net. I guess it makes sense in that my school is ****ed up beyond all recognition, though.

My drafting teacher was absent for about a week and the ****ing moron substitute teacher downloads and installs KaZaA on the computer I normally use. I'd uninstall it, then it would be back the next day downloading a bunch og Tupac and Eminem ****. ****ing moron. Did I say he was/is a ****ing moron?

Tangents are kinda fun.

My school has no firewall, I usually look at new threads at GTP from there.

 

[IceGT]

you can usually get around the firewalls by looking up the ip address of the site that you are trying to go to, because most of the firewalls aren't looking for the ip address of those sites.

 

[milefile]

How would I find the IP of GTPlanet?

 

[Race Idiot]

c:\>ping gtplanet.net

Although that wont work through a proxy.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by Race Idiot
c:\>ping gtplanet.net

Although that wont work through a proxy.

We have a proxy here, and it doesn't seem to work, although I could've sworn I've done it before.

I'll just have to do it from home.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Go to www.checkdns.net

 

[the_cobbinator]

What kind of network is your school running? We have Novell Client, just press escape and bingo-instant access. All of your tracks are marked as the computers, so no ID. It is amazing how stupid the computer people are at school, when I showed the tech guy how I could access the (restricted) C: drive he just kind of stared at me and said "whoah". Ahh, good times.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Go to www.checkdns.net

That worked. Thanks Giles. I tried piging from home and it didn't work. I could find every other site I tried, but no GTP. Why?

 

[milefile]

When I try to get to the site using the IP I get this:

12204 SSL port specified is not allowed.

Is there a way around that? I'm using this IP: 69.57.156.7

 

[the_cobbinator]

It's telling you that the port you're trying to access is a Secure Sicket Layer Port that is restricted, probably for security reasons. Try putting a semicolon after the IP and type in a number. Try 72, 60, stuff like that, see where you get. e.g. 69.57.156.7:60

 

[TurboSmoke]

Originally posted by milefile
How would I find the IP of GTPlanet?

you could always ask me...but it will cost ye...100 bucks





















*joking*

i'll pm it to you..

cheers mate,
TS

 

[milefile]

Ever since this thing has been up and running a lot of websites take excessively long to load. They don't time out, but they never finish. My Yahoo email is very hit or miss now, too. What a pain.

But GTPlanet runs just as well as ever.