Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:45:06 + Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I was also under the impression that it wasn't by IP but that they could block specific youtube videos etc. They use a combination of IP blocking, DNS

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Randy Bush
Is anyone aware whether or not Thailand has a centralized firewall on Internet access? think of it as more like a monopoly telco with ties to the government We've had reports from several folks in Thailand that they are unable to get to some IP addresses in our network (this problem is

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randy Bush wrote: Does anyone know how to contact whoever is responsible for this firewall system to find out at the very least why this block is in place? read your newspaper It's not only now, they've been blocking badtalking the king for quite a while. I was also

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On May 5, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I was also under the impression that it wasn't by IP but that they could block specific youtube videos etc. They use a combination of IP blocking, DNS poisoning, and transparent HTTP proxy-based URL filtering.

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randy Bush wrote: Does anyone know how to contact whoever is responsible for this firewall system to find out at the very least why this block is in place? read your newspaper It's not only now,

Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-04 Thread Drew Weaver
Hi, Is anyone aware whether or not Thailand has a centralized firewall on Internet access? We've had reports from several folks in Thailand that they are unable to get to some IP addresses in our network (this problem is reproducible on the traceroute.org Thailand sites as well). It seems to

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-04 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On May 4, 2010, at 11:03 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: Is anyone aware whether or not Thailand has a centralized firewall on Internet access? Thai SPs are required by law to block sites deemed objectionable by the government of Thailand; common reasons given include lese majeste and/or other

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote: Thai SPs are required by law to block sites deemed objectionable by the government of Thailand; common reasons given include lese majeste and/or other materials deemed injurious to 'national security'. +1. When I was in thailand the (my guess) URL