In reply to a post by tommy45:

But it is only able to effect sky customers due to how they filter web sites such as eztv ,or should we say how sky's broken filtering works

In that case, can someone persuade eztv to add Sky.com to their DNS

In reply to a post by IanBB:

Extract from TorrentFreak website

...it appears that Sky�s filtering system blocks any and all IP-addresses that EZTV adds to their DNS. This essentially means that EZTV, or any other blocked site, has the power to render entire websites inaccessible to Sky subscribers. Luckily we were the target and not Google...

Update: Sky isn�t in a hurry to fix the flaw, but EZTV said it will remove the TorrentFreak IP address from its DNS so the site should be accessible again soon.

Thanks for that. Interesting that Sky have given blacklisted sites power to block any site they want for Sky users.

And in case EZTV are reading this, the IP addresses for www.sky.com are 176.255.202.50 and 176.255.202.67

Just saying...

http://torrentfreak.com/skys-court-ordered-piracy-fi...
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Edited by professor973 (Sat 10-Aug-13 16:21:35)

As highlighted in the BE forum, radiotimes.com has now got the blocking treatment:

Tracing route to radiotimes.com [96.45.82.132]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 31 ms 31 ms 35 ms ip-84-38-37-34.easynet.co.uk [84.38.37.34]
4 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms ip-89-200-134-174.ov.easynet.net [89.200.134.174]
5 26 ms 27 ms 25 ms out0.pi0.bllon.isp.sky.com [90.223.205.130]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.

thats funny, but does show how bad these filtering systems can be.

there tends to be a priority of blocking the bad boys over avoiding false positives.

This block has also knocked out the non-www versions of several Football League websites, including:

http://readingfc.co.uk
http://brentfordfc.co.uk
http://cpfc.co.uk
http://seagulls.co.uk

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

This block has also knocked out the non-www versions of several Football League websites, including:

http://readingfc.co.uk
http://brentfordfc.co.uk
http://cpfc.co.uk
http://seagulls.co.uk

These are not blocked to me and I'm on Sky Fibre

Users who are blocked from using certain websites may find this link interesting.
immunicity.org

A Novel way to use the true web!

Edit: professor973 beat me to it, lol

Edited by majika2007 (Sun 25-Aug-13 15:43:27)