MTN censorship

GreGorGy

GreGorGy

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I read about MTN blocking some sites here last week. I though that the sites being blocked were somehow criminal in nature - until it happened to me.

http://www.gba-nds.com/ is a site that deals with running customised homebrew games on Ninendo DS consoles. It cannot be accessed from an MTN data connection. You get the blocked access error page (the page itself doesn't exist - rather the URL which I forget).

So, are other ISPs also making choices for their customers?

If not, why is MTN doing it? And what must happen for a website to magically make their list?

This is the second such problem I have had. A few months ago, my emails were not getting to their destinations because MTN's mail server felt that they were malicious. It was my CV folks...
 
Try changing your APN from 'internet' to 'MyMTN', or vice versa.
 
Thanks - will do when I get home. That would certainly be better than trying to get a Vodacom to work in my modem
 
Changing APN did NOT work. Aaargh!

The MTN people told me to "access it via the google site"

I do not know what he means - and I seriously doubt he does either :(
 
Think they meant using the google "cached" snapshot or googleproxy ( the one cellphones use to browse )
 
Can you access the site using something like anonymouse.org?
 
I doubt the site is being censored, most likely just a cruddy dns cache or bad routing.
 
OMG YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!
MTN guys...any comment?
 
w1z4rd said:
I doubt the site is being censored, most likely just a cruddy dns cache or bad routing.
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I did suspect that but as you can see from my nslookup, it is all good - I set my dns to use Open DNS and still it happens. DNS I think is innocent...
 
Accessing a site via another site works but given that content is dynamic, I am adding network overhead and making sacrifices on my side for a service that essentially I paid good money for and should not have such disabilities. At the very least, a reply from MTN would be great but they are ignoring my emails. For now....
 
da_iP_Guy said:
GreGorGy
See if u can access.
PS. Site listed as phishing site.
http://urlblacklist.com
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Now this is what I suspected: MTN has been using that PinPoint rubbish (it blocked my CV when I sent it off for jobs I could actually have got!!!!)

And I assume PinPoint is also responsible for this. Of course, getting to the truth will not be easy, as I have personal experience of the Powers That Be at NS denying stuff and blatantly lying about other things. I will try when I get home. But the fact is, if I want my data phished, let that be my choice - send me an alert, if I am stoopid enough to still give out my banking details, let that be my problem and not the diagnoses of some (questionable) DNS black list.
 
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