Airgun.com blocked by my school...

[Top Secret]

AGD's homepage has been restricted by my school for "weapons content". Which I find interesting because NO OTHER paintball website has been restricted by the school's system. Anyone else finding these filter's to be blocking access to different paintball websites?

[ntn4502]

Thats some BS, sorry to hear it

[Blennidae]

I'm guessing its due to the name "airGUN". See if you can go to something like www.colt.com, or www.glock.com and see if its just the name or if its the content.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Top Secret
AGD's homepage has been restricted by my school for "weapons content". Which I find interesting because NO OTHER paintball website has been restricted by the school's system. Anyone else finding these filter's to be blocking access to different paintball websites?

[alkafluence]

Not that I advertise this as "ethical" in fact you are probably violating more policies if you do this.

Now if they have blocked it because of the word air"GUN"...

If you hit up http://www.anonymizer.com and punch in the URL you should be able to get to Airgun's site. Now, if the school's network admin is smart, he will have blocked proxy sites. In which case you can put in the IP address which is 168.143.113.10

I don't advocate doing this, I'm just saying that it will work, because public knowledge is always a good thing.

[snakestang]

Shartley I do agree with you to a certain extent. Please, no one take any offense to this, as it may not be the case. But...

Some students and their parents may not be able to afford to have a computer or internet access in their homes. The cost of owning equipment and using the internet has come down considerably but still may be out of reach for some lower income families. The only way for some students to access the internet is to use a school PC on their OWN time (lunch, after school) or you can use a PC at your local library. If its not related to school as Shartley said then I would suggest using the library if you cannot access it from school on your own time.

I use the net though my office at work and I am taking a chance on getting in trouble. I do make sure my work is being completed on a regular basis though.

It is unusual though that you can access everything else though.

[lopxtc]

A couple things to try ...

1) Try to access it by ip address only ... not name. Some blocking software blocks the FQDN and not the IP addy.

2) If it blocks the dotted quad ip addy (ie xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) then you can also try converting the IP addy to a binary number and trying to access it by this method. Again some block software doesnt block this method either. If you dont know how to do this you can PM me and I will send you the details ...


Just some simple ways to try an work around the system

Aaron

[shartley]

Originally posted by snakestang
Shartley I do agree with you to a certain extent. Please, no one take any offense to this, as it may not be the case. But...

Some students and their parents may not be able to afford to have a computer or internet access in their homes. The cost of owning equipment and using the internet has come down considerably but still may be out of reach for some lower income families. The only way for some students to access the internet is to use a school PC on their OWN time (lunch, after school) or you can use a PC at your local library. If its not related to school as Shartley said then I would suggest using the library if you cannot access it from school on your own time.

I use the net though my office at work and I am taking a chance on getting in trouble. I do make sure my work is being completed on a regular basis though.

It is unusual though that you can access everything else though.

[snakestang]

I totally agree. It is a luxury in most cases. Although I do not see the problem if he/she is using the access after school on personal time. It would be the same as using a library computer and actually better in some cases for the simple fact that some sensitive material is being blocked from view.

I, as you grew up with none of these luxuries and do not expect them to be abused at the cost of taxpayers. These blocked sites should not be circumvented just because you think that the block is improper. To me that would be a waste of time. If you have that much time then you should be looking into taking on some extra credit homework or night classes preparing for college. I wish I would have.

[FutureMagOwner]

accualy in my school its becoming almost impossible to do many things REQUIRED with out a computer or internet and then the teachers wont let the kid leave the class and in my case like alot of kids work after school and cant sit around all afternoon but i have a computer and DSL so i cant complain

[xmetal2001]

Shartley--At my school during lunch, free period, etc. we can go to the lab and do whatever we want on the computer(not WHATEVER we want, but you get the idea, free time). Thats a time when you could goto airgun.com, see whats going on with AGD, and in fact you are encouraged to do it.

[personman]

In basic technology, he lets us have free time like half the class. lol he couldnt care less what kind of websites I go onto, unless its like porno

[shartley]

[-J�ker-]

i cant even get on to this site at school its crazy! i mean i wanted to do research for a essay!!! i asked the librarian if she could let me get on the site and she laughed in my face o well i think we should be able to look at anthing besides porn and real volient things.... i mean cmon paintball isnt violent

[Spray Painter]

HE HE i went on to AO this morning for about 10 minutes
until the teacher started walking my way. at my school you can't go anywhere without going to msn(the homepage) and doing a serch for any URL