has one line in Chinese stating that the site has been blocked. Same thing happens when the search query in any search engine has the word “mail” in it.
Is this our server OR is it external?
Can’t do a search on the I.P either.
this IP number I believe is in a range that’s reserved for internal network uses, like routers and your computer’s IP numbers.
Yes, anything beginning with 192.168. is not on the internet, it’s on your own internal network, it’s your server saying that.
yep it’s your router. People usually set the router to be the first address in network.
IP ranges reserved for internal networks are:
10...*
172.16..
192.168..
Who knows what the page is for. Nothing you need to think about.
When did it come up?
on the money! Thanks.
I called our admin. Turns out he blocked the word “mail” therefore blocking every email service apart from our own.
Thank heavens I can beat that by placing a forward on all my other mail.
Turns out with over 200 staff checking emails that every computer was getting a virus on a regular basis. Our own mail server is now the only one to be trusted.
There must be a better way than to block logging in to any other email accounts though. :dunno:
[quote=“Bassman”]
There must be a better way than to block logging in to any other email accounts though. :dunno:[/quote]
Like a competent IT person? 
Now it is ok for my gmail account. I can forward that to the company email account, but HOTMAIL doesn’t have any automatic mail forwarding available.
So, the foreign staff here are not happy, they can’t connect to hotmail to check their mail and contact their families. It’s the hotmail url problem "…hotmail that is the problem.
There must be a backdoor login method or a way to get hotmail mails off the server even when there is a block on “mail”.
How do I tell the IT person a better way to do things? He didn’t want to just block every email website, he just blocked the word “mail”. Grrrrr, must be a mainlander with all this censorship.
So, the office computers are always crashing, but there must be a more intelligent solution. BTW, our IT guy is a DIY, self taught IT guy.
[quote=“Bassman”]Now it is ok for my gmail account. I can forward that to the company email account, but HOTMAIL doesn’t have any automatic mail forwarding available.
So, the foreign staff here are not happy, they can’t connect to hotmail to check their mail and contact their families. It’s the hotmail url problem "…hotmail that is the problem.
There must be a backdoor login method or a way to get hotmail mails off the server even when there is a block on “mail”.
How do I tell the IT person a better way to do things? He didn’t want to just block every email website, he just blocked the word “mail”. Grrrrr, must be a mainlander with all this censorship.
So, the office computers are always crashing, but there must be a more intelligent solution. BTW, our IT guy is a DIY, self taught IT guy.[/quote]
Self-taught isn’t necessarily bad. Usually the best people might go to school; certainly, they spend their spare time always learning. From what I hear, IT is bad here self-taught or formally educated.
A reliable way is a network anti-virus appliance. Trend-Micro is one way. This is different from detecting viruses after they get to your computer. That is good too. Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition can manage antivirus apps across the entire network on every computer.
Network antivirus can watch network activity and filter out viruses.
Computers always crashing? Ah well. If you want someone to come in and fix each and every single problem, let me know.
To get around the filtering, you could use a proxy: anonymous surf services (the ones that will work with webmail), your own ssh port forwarding to a home computer, or a traditional proxy somewhere.
[quote=“Bassman”]Now it is ok for my gmail account. I can forward that to the company email account, but HOTMAIL doesn’t have any automatic mail forwarding available.
So, the foreign staff here are not happy, they can’t connect to hotmail to check their mail and contact their families. It’s the hotmail url problem "…hotmail that is the problem.
There must be a backdoor login method or a way to get hotmail mails off the server even when there is a block on “mail”.
How do I tell the IT person a better way to do things? He didn’t want to just block every email website, he just blocked the word “mail”. Grrrrr, must be a mainlander with all this censorship.
Try to find out the IP number for hotmail … 
So, the office computers are always crashing, but there must be a more intelligent solution. BTW, our IT guy is a DIY, self taught IT guy.[/quote]
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How do I tell the IT person a better way to do things? He didn’t want to just block every email website, he just blocked the word “mail”. Grrrrr, must be a mainlander with all this censorship.
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Try to find out the IP number for hotmail …
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In my non so scientific one attempt, it didn’t quite work; they do url redirects.
I’d get a wireless card and superduper kilometer range antenna. Use another network.
Hit him upside the head and just take the reins.
Of course, one assumes that it is okay to be checking your email at work, esp. if it is on the boss’s time…
Perhaps, there is method in the madness! I know I wouldn’t be too happy that my employees were checking their email (assuming it’s not work related) during working hours…
Ahem, of course I have NEVER done that… 
Kenneth
There was a recent article about email and web surfing. People were ok with it since he helped relieve stress.
There is a lot more to say about this subject. It is possible to work and play hard at the same time. Look at Google. Think they care about these things? They create a company that people love to work for.
Any talk about stuff like this and you’re telling me you’re a mediocre company. Create a place where people say I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
80/20 rule? something like that. Or the psychologist that speaks about flow? Just do something you love and you’ll forget about time and the outside world; exist in your activity. Integral experience? Bergson anyone?