Right, the *.pfsense.org is not blocked by the Chinese GFW. At present, I can visit any sub-domain at pfsense.org directly(without proxy), except the forum.pfsense.org.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Chris Buechler <cbuech...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Bart Grefte <b...@ravenslair.nl> wrote: >> You need a proxy just to open websites like pfSense.org and YouTube? > > They do block quite a few things, but not any of our sites currently > (they used to block our blog when it was hosted on blogspot, but > *.pfsense.org sites were fine). We see a couple thousand visits a week > to our forum alone from IPs in China, I haven't heard of any > *.pfsense.org sites being inaccessible there. > > That proxy is indeed banned for abuse at some point in the past, > though I don't see any recent hits on it aside from this person's > attempts. Oddly though, I can't seem to find the ban in SMF (though > their ban GUI isn't all that great for finding a specific ban when you > have thousands of them). I'll have to dig through the database > manually at some point to find it, probably be a few days before I > have time. In the mean time, accessing directly without the proxy > should work just fine. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > -- Best Regard! Liu GN --------------------- IBSs Co., Ltd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
