(Flag img taken from Ditesh's post)
Okay .. its 31st August again .. the anniversary of Malaysia independence from Great Britain .. and I'm at home for a holiday .. and guess what .. I noticed a shocking discovery .. The DARNED TMnut blocked my IRC access!!! - on port 6667 in particular
Some Xchat output
* Looking up irc.freenode.net
* Connecting to chat.freenode.net (204.11.244.21) port 6667...
* Connection failed. Error: Connection refused
* Looking up irc.dal.net
* Connecting to irc.dal.net (194.68.45.50) port 6667...
* Connection failed. Error: Connection refused
* Disconnected ().
* Looking up irc.prison.net
* Connecting to irc.prison.net (209.249.249.126) port 6667...
* Connection failed. Error: Connection refused
* Disconnected ().
* Looking up irc.rizon.net
* Connecting to us.iso.rizon.net (216.246.56.111) port 6667...
* Connection failed. Error: Connection refused
* Looking up irc.dal.net
* Connecting to irc.dal.net (194.68.45.50) port 6669...
* Connected. Now logging in...
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Found your hostname, cached
* *** Checking Ident
SEE THAT??!! .. outbound port 6667 access is blocked!!
being curious if they blocked also inbound port 6667 to my tunneled UTPchat IRC server, I ssh'ed to an external box, made my irc server listening on port 6667-6669 .. and tried netcat'ing to it .. and heres the output
[kagesenshi@devel ~]$ nc tunnel.utpchat.net 6667
[kagesenshi@devel ~]$ nc tunnel.utpchat.net 6668
:tunnel.utpchat.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
:tunnel.utpchat.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Couldn't resolve your hostname; using your IP address instead
^C
[kagesenshi@devel ~]$ nc tunnel.utpchat.net 6669
:tunnel.utpchat.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
:tunnel.utpchat.net NOTICE AUTH :*** Couldn't resolve your hostname; using your IP address instead
^C
[kagesenshi@devel ~]$
Notice that connection is refused to port 6667
WTF!! .. damn .. if not because ure the only ISP which my family can afford, (and generally the ONLY ISP in Malaysia) ... I would tell my dad to switch to other ISP... grrr ....
grr ... Heck .. I want my Freedom!! ..
Its "Merdeka" (Independence) anniversary .. and here I am , with my Freedom to IRC blocked ..
Update : I just checked it again today, and it looks like my IRC access is back ... Happy .. but still pissed off ..
6 comments:
12:01 AM
So this is sucks.TMnut got worse!
5:42 AM
wow that really sucks. so did you get your IRC back?
and my company was going to open new servers at malaysia isp for our asian hosting market, is it advisable to keep servers in malaysia? technical and political reasons?
Thanks for your compiz-fedora repo btw :).
Cheers,
Anshuman.
http://www.linuxtruthiness.blogspot.com.
3:20 PM
@anshuman
I checked today and it seems that its back ..
recommendation of Malaysian ISP eh .. i dont think i'm a suitable person to judge this .. however, generally, the ISPs will not do crazy stuff like this to enterprise packages ..
TMnet has the largest userbase in consumer broadband -> mainly due to its wide coverage, and cheap price .. and its basically the monopoly of the land phone lines in Malaysia ..
Jaring is usually more preferred by enterprise users ..
List of Malaysian ISP
I'm not a person to judge which is better - because I had never tried their enterprise packages and the only ISP i've used is TMnet
but so far, TMnet tend to make crazy moves on their consumer packages that makes geeks angry .. -> like blocking P2P esp. Torrent , suddenly block certain access etc ..
maybe the people from #myoss freenode can give you more info related to this
11:04 PM
my brain still can comprehend if tmnut suddenly decided to block p2p ports. But hell, blocking efficient and bandwidth saving protocol such as IRC? that's just plain crazy...
while in the process, why dont they block http/https and ftp port too since those protocol incur a lot of data transfer
3:11 PM
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12:16 PM
Chat from Office ? never block... just visit this irc server type
at ur mIRC status....
/server irc.via.my 5050
/server ukm.malayirc.com 5050
Latest server list: Port
MalayIRC Network
ukm.malayirc.com 5050,6667, 6668, 6669 & 7000
irc.via.my 5050,6667, 6668, 6669 & 7000
assalammualaikum...
nie server baru...
banyak lagi channel masih kosong....
org malaysia ader link ngan server nie....
server nie diketuai oleh bekas ircop webnet... (nick dirahsiakan)
server nie bakal menggantikan webnet @ webchat.... (webnet dan
webchat tutup pada bulan 5)
tuh saja pesan nak disampaikan..... ramai yang dah masuk server
nie... utk dapatkan channel dan user....
sila fowardkan email nie... dan set topic pada channel anda semua
mengenai server baru nie... harap maklum
http://iptachat.blogspot.com/ - official chat online
http://malayirc-server.blogspot.com/ - official malayirc blogs
()SERVER WEBNET DAH BERLUBANG DAN TUNGGU MASA JEK NAK BERKUBUR()
wassalam....
amin!
p/s:- sila fowardkan email nie... dan set topic pada channel anda
semua mengenai server baru nie... harap maklum~!
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