Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

While at Dulles International, I hung out in the business lounge for Lithuania airlines and started surfing the web.  I was shocked when I discovered this web forum was not  responding. I figured I would have to tell Rick to fix his crap. 

So then I decided to go to my second most favorite site, gunsamerica.com, which also would not respond, but damn if Facebook didn't come right up!  My wife tried from the house to access the gun sites at the same time and had no problems pulling them up.

I'm trying to convince myself that this is just a coincidence, but I haven't succeeded as of yet; but I did test a few other known gun websites and had o problems getting to them. 

I ran a trace route and didn't see anything similar between the two inaccessible sites, as you can see below. Maybe just a quirk? Tmobile was the provider of the Internet access.

Vagunforum:
Traceroute to www.vagunforum.net (67.225.246.15)

#1: 10.140.217.1 (10.140.217.1)
6.469 ms 2.718 ms 2.069 ms
#2: 10.64.1.8 (10.64.1.
133.759 ms 115.802 ms 111.856 ms
#3: 10.64.3.123 (10.64.3.123)
111.006 ms 117.913 ms 105.817 ms
#4: 172.28.95.198 (172.28.95.198)
105.216 ms 131.533 ms 105.944 ms
#5: 172.28.76.19 (172.28.76.19)
112.435 ms 115.346 ms 109.127 ms
#6: 172.28.76.33 (172.28.76.33)
106.709 ms 106.800 ms 112.971 ms
#7: 172.28.75.22 (172.28.75.22)
115.687 ms 110.584 ms 118.197 ms
#8: 172.31.31.129 (172.31.31.129)
113.861 ms 108.406 ms 107.068 ms
#9: 10.74.2.9 (10.74.2.9)
106.714 ms 106.638 ms 107.261 ms
#10: 217.243.218.89 (217.243.218.89)
111.842 ms 108.973 ms 115.391 ms
#11: f-ee4-i.F.DE.NET.DTAG.DE (62.154.14.238)
110.740 ms 201.063 ms 110.812 ms
#12: 62.157.250.74 (62.157.250.74)
119.310 ms 118.168 ms 117.742 ms
#13: vlan90.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.254)
122.700 ms 121.474 ms 118.641 ms
#14: ae-91-91.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.13)
123.452 ms 123.454 ms 157.657 ms
#15: ae-47-47.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.142)
123.807 ms 129.876 ms 122.984 ms
#16: ae-41-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.50)
201.010 ms 203.523 ms 207.270 ms
#17: ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net (4.69.143.222)
210.342 ms * 2.755 ms
#18: ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net (4.69.143.222)
202.432 ms 25.555 ms 0.649 ms
#19: ae-6-6.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.148.146)
213.165 ms 0.336 ms 1.040 ms
#20 * 10.162 ms 82.723 ms
#21: CWIE-LLC.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.59.29.82)
0.620 ms 0.364 ms 213.635 ms
#22: 209.59.157.0 (209.59.157.0)
0.584 ms 0.358 ms 222.611 ms
#23: lw-core3-te91.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.204)
0.582 ms 0.362 ms 221.901 ms
#24: lw-dc2-sec2-dist4-po2.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.116)
0.610 ms 0.354 ms 219.572 ms
#25: dc2-vps2-308.liquidweb.com (67.225.247.203)
0.629 ms 0.364 ms *
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Gunsamerica.com:
Traceroute to gunsamerica.com (66.115.56.251)

#1: 10.140.217.1 (10.140.217.1)
2.347 ms 2.256 ms 3.821 ms
#2: 10.64.1.8 (10.64.1.
188.797 ms 193.355 ms 180.112 ms
#3 * 37.129 ms 138.223 ms
#4: 10.64.3.123 (10.64.3.123)
0.523 ms * 6.473 ms
#5: 172.28.95.198 (172.28.95.198)
15.091 ms 180.288 ms 0.635 ms
#6: 172.28.76.19 (172.28.76.19)
0.367 ms 128.429 ms 0.336 ms
#7: 172.28.76.33 (172.28.76.33)
0.357 ms 182.871 ms 0.481 ms
#8: 172.28.75.22 (172.28.75.22)
0.942 ms 123.867 ms 0.369 ms
#9: 172.31.31.129 (172.31.31.129)
0.318 ms 201.332 ms 12.274 ms
#10: 10.74.2.9 (10.74.2.9)
0.364 ms 102.380 ms 28.934 ms
#11: 217.243.218.89 (217.243.218.89)
0.361 ms 122.993 ms 52.513 ms
#12: 194.25.6.26 (194.25.6.26)
0.614 ms 0.370 ms 177.266 ms
#13: 80.156.160.46 (80.156.160.46)
0.618 ms 0.367 ms *
#14: broad-band-one.tengigabitethernet3-3.ar2.mia2.gblx.net (159.63.21.30)
84.875 ms 0.730 ms 0.372 ms
#15: boc-ten1-5-mia-ten3-1.bboi.net (66.216.1.246)
0.330 ms 0.641 ms 0.370 ms
#16: host-boca-bboi.bboi.net (66.216.1.94)
1.317 ms 0.379 ms *
#17: te2-3.cr01.eqx.mia.host.net (64.135.0.6)
149.610 ms 0.626 ms 0.620 ms
#18: vl927.cr01.hst.fll.host.net (64.135.1.195)
0.349 ms 1.204 ms 0.368 ms
#19: po2.cs02.hst.fll.host.net (64.135.1.125)
0.328 ms 0.570 ms 0.371 ms
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Facebook:
Traceroute to www.facebook.com (69.171.228.11)

#1: 10.140.217.1 (10.140.217.1)
2.141 ms 3.108 ms 2.078 ms
#2: 10.64.1.8 (10.64.1.
105.302 ms 103.807 ms 105.256 ms
#3: 10.64.3.123 (10.64.3.123)
105.807 ms 104.330 ms 105.779 ms
#4: 172.28.95.198 (172.28.95.198)
106.084 ms 112.593 ms 105.952 ms
#5: 172.28.76.19 (172.28.76.19)
106.384 ms 106.093 ms 105.810 ms
#6: 172.28.76.33 (172.28.76.33)
107.542 ms 108.080 ms 107.207 ms
#7: 172.28.75.22 (172.28.75.22)
106.459 ms 106.810 ms 105.458 ms
#8: 172.31.31.129 (172.31.31.129)
107.358 ms 108.766 ms 110.890 ms
#9: 10.74.2.9 (10.74.2.9)
109.537 ms 108.968 ms 107.845 ms
#10: 217.243.218.89 (217.243.218.89)
112.915 ms 110.680 ms 113.269 ms
#11: 217.239.41.66 (217.239.41.66)
201.153 ms 198.589 ms 200.333 ms
#12: 80.150.170.154 (80.150.170.154)
197.059 ms 199.596 ms 196.055 ms
#13: ae9.bb02.iad1.tfbnw.net (31.13.25.73)
202.705 ms 203.730 ms 218.757 ms
#14 * 46.593 ms 0.579 ms
#15 * 34.720 ms 0.564 ms
#16: ae1.dr04.prn1.tfbnw.net (204.15.23.91)
0.351 ms * 31.337 ms
#17: po1022.csw05a.prn1.tfbnw.net (74.119.76.243)
0.501 ms 0.658 ms 2.473 ms
#18: www-10-05-prn1.facebook.com (69.171.228.11)
33.414 ms 0.641 ms 0.355 ms
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Silly rabbit, you can't bring scary gun internets to the airport

I've run across this a few times as well. Even in some hotels.

That's why I'm packing a new Verizon 4G LTE MiFi to bring all the internets I need.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/stor ... oneId=5633

OakRidgeStars wrote:Silly rabbit, you can't bring scary gun internets to the airport

I've run across this a few times as well. Even in some hotels.

That's why I'm packing a new Verizon 4G LTE MiFi to bring all the internets I need.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/stor ... oneId=5633

haha - now *that's* a sales pitch!

I have no idea what you're talking about

I wonder if they are blocking the NRA sites too.

How about the Brady Bunch's site?

Don't you see the ATF Agent at the end of the second hop in each trace?

Blocking weapons related sites is the default setting on many out of the box firewalls with filtering software. I first ran into this when I supported an Army acquisition program office responsible for purchasing weapon systems that had its people show up for work one day and they found they could no longer reach many of the defense contractor sites needed to conduct their normal business. The government computer support staff (supported lots of tenant outfits on the base) was a bit embarrassed, but they managed to fix this pretty quickly.

MNewkirk wrote:I figured I would have to tell Rick to fix his crap. 

Hrmph. Highly unlikely!

allingeneral wrote:

MNewkirk wrote:I figured I would have to tell Rick to fix his crap. 

Hrmph. Highly unlikely!

I've noticed that when I travel I can't hit this site either... I'm assuming you're not blocking any domains/countries/ISPs ?

jdonovan wrote:

allingeneral wrote:

MNewkirk wrote:I figured I would have to tell Rick to fix his crap. 

Hrmph. Highly unlikely!

I've noticed that when I travel I can't hit this site either... I'm assuming you're not blocking any domains/countries/ISPs ?

Just New York and California right!?!

Chesterfield Town Center's Mall wifi blocks gun stuff. Chesterfield county also blocks gun stuff and forums but I can still access VGOF! Win!

At least everything works here in Japan - surprisingly considering their stance on weapons!

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jdonovan wrote:

allingeneral wrote:

MNewkirk wrote:I figured I would have to tell Rick to fix his crap. 

Hrmph. Highly unlikely!

I've noticed that when I travel I can't hit this site either... I'm assuming you're not blocking any domains/countries/ISPs ?

Actually, I do usually block all but US traffic to help cut down on spam, but I have since determined a different way to handle the spam problem and opened the firewall back up.

allingeneral wrote:
Actually, I do usually block all but US traffic to help cut down on spam, but I have since determined a different way to handle the spam problem and opened the firewall back up.

So that's what happened the past coupla days - you left the door open!!!

Palladin wrote:

allingeneral wrote:
Actually, I do usually block all but US traffic to help cut down on spam, but I have since determined a different way to handle the spam problem and opened the firewall back up.

So that's what happened the past coupla days - you left the door open!!!

haha YEP!!

I.T. guys at work kid about the Out of the box firewalls block gun sites... but porn sites come thru NO PROBLEM!

Speaking of blocking sites...I was just in the hospital in virginia beach for the past 2 days (wife was giving birth to my son!), and it was a little disappointing that both this site and vaguntrader was also blocked because it dealt with "weapons" according to the message that popped up.

TJ, Congrats to you and your wife....hope all went well.

Reverenddel wrote:I.T. guys at work kid about the Out of the box firewalls block gun sites... but porn sites come thru NO PROBLEM!

THAT is sad.....

Jut setup an extra home desktop or laptop to be a proxy. Then whenever you're on public wifi you can use it to go wherever you want.

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TeaJay wrote:...I was just in the hospital in virginia beach for the past 2 days (wife was giving birth to my son!)...

Congrats, TJ!!