Slashdot and transparent proxy

[koffiejunkie]

OK, I *assume* saix would have a transparent proxy somewhere upstream.

When I try to post or reply to posts on Slashdot, I get a message saying: "You can't post to this page." According to the FAQ http://linux.slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm517 this is because I'm behind an open proxy.

Now, I have a squid proxy at home, which I have made sure only allows connections from my local net, and port 3128 is most certainly not open on my ppp0 interface (I tried to telnet into it from work).

I have the same problem at work though, also on adsl, just a different ISP (Telkom in stead of Axxess). The only dial up access I have to check this is Storm, which happen to be on saix, so I cannot tell if it happens elsewhere.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks

 

[Page]

yup, I believe they do.
I'm subscribed to /.'s RSS feeds and sometimes I get the "Newsreader banned" message, apparently due to frequent updates by my reader (even if I haven't updated the feed for hours).
I assume that's because of a proxy doing all the reading by all the users, and that p!sses them off somehow?

 

[Deenem]

Me 2.

I emailed [email protected] with the IP address of the proxy and asked to be unbanned.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Let us know if you get a reply - I'll mail them too.

 

[bb_matt]

You'll never get a reply from those guys - they make it very clear that they don't give a damn about non-US-citizens or in fact about IP numbers being banned.

I dought that email address is ever viewed by anyone - it probably just goes directly to /tmp and gets cleared out once an hour.

The guys who run slashdot are not so much arrogant, as beyond giving a damn - which is why their site design hasn't changed in the last 5 years.

 

[koffiejunkie]

just figured out I can surf (and post) through 196.25.255.4:8080 - so that's obviously not the banned proxy I thought it was....

 

[reech]

so -- it just occurred to me - if saix use a tranparent proxy - does this count towards so called 'international bandwidth' ie added to cap ...since it's essentially ..well local really?

 

[koffiejunkie]

All bandwidth counts towards the cap. Client of mine tried to mail a quark file to their printers. Poor mail server tried to pass it on to smtp.saix.net, but it would keep timing out. And the poor mail server would wait a bit, and try again. Unfortunately this was friday afternoon, and by the time they got back on monday they're usage was on 7GB for uploads, while less than a gig on downloads. Capped....