My apartment’s DSL line is through Hinet. Not my choice, my landlord installed the line.
For the last week or so, I’ve been getting DNS lookup errors for mail.yahoo.com (but not my.yahoo.com), www.google.com automatically redirects to if your connection is coming from Taiwan), and a whole bunch of other sites. I can access these sites without any problem from work, however.
I’ve been assuming that Hinet is being blocked by more and more places to avoid spammers and hackers. For those of you on Hinet, are you seeing the same problems?
[quote=“MaPoSquid”]My apartment’s DSL line is through Hinet. Not my choice, my landlord installed the line.
For the last week or so, I’ve been getting DNS lookup errors for mail.yahoo.com (but not my.yahoo.com), www.google.com automatically redirects to if your connection is coming from Taiwan), and a whole bunch of other sites. I can access these sites without any problem from work, however.
I’ve been assuming that Hinet is being blocked by more and more places to avoid spammers and hackers. For those of you on Hinet, are you seeing the same problems?[/quote]
I’m using Hinet, and I’m not seeing this behavior at all.
There are a few things you haven’t told us that might be relevant. You say that your landlord installed the DSL line, so does this mean you’ve got one of those deals where the building has a line with a fixed address and everybody in the building is behind one router (thus, the building is wired as one big LAN)? If so, any funny business from anybody on the LAN might attract attention from system administrators who would block that address, leaving everybody screwed.
if you are using IP block 59.x.x.x then that’s not Hinet
problem, it’s blocked by default on most ISP, this is a
known issue, so just call Hinet to complain…
[quote=“robert_storey”]I’m using Hinet, and I’m not seeing this behavior at all.
There are a few things you haven’t told us that might be relevant. You say that your landlord installed the DSL line, so does this mean you’ve got one of those deals where the building has a line with a fixed address and everybody in the building is behind one router (thus, the building is wired as one big LAN)?[/quote]
Yep, exactly. Unfortunately, my landlord and landlady don’t speak a word of English, and the three times I’ve tried to go through translators they haven’t managed to understand any Chinese either. Oh well. I’ll just have to live with it until my lease is up. Sigh.
The odd thing, though, is that some of the other sites are not exactly hacker-intensive. www.heritage.org is blocked (I was trying to look up some statistics there). I forget the others I was blocked from, but they weren’t common sites. Maybe whoever’s been screwing with the apartment’s line has managed to get us on a RBL or something.
MaPoSquid
Since when are you here, or how come you don’t speak any chinese?
But anyway, if you use an anonymous proxy you will not encounter these problems.
[quote=“MaPoSquid”][quote=“robert_storey”]I’m using Hinet, and I’m not seeing this behavior at all.
There are a few things you haven’t told us that might be relevant. You say that your landlord installed the DSL line, so does this mean you’ve got one of those deals where the building has a line with a fixed address and everybody in the building is behind one router (thus, the building is wired as one big LAN)?[/quote]
Yep, exactly. Unfortunately, my landlord and landlady don’t speak a word of English, and the three times I’ve tried to go through translators they haven’t managed to understand any Chinese either. Oh well. I’ll just have to live with it until my lease is up. Sigh.
The odd thing, though, is that some of the other sites are not exactly hacker-intensive. www.heritage.org is blocked (I was trying to look up some statistics there). I forget the others I was blocked from, but they weren’t common sites. Maybe whoever’s been screwing with the apartment’s line has managed to get us on a RBL or something.[/quote]
I use hinet adsl and have no problems accessing those sites.
I’ve had similar problems in the past with those same sites. It lasted for about a month and then one day the problems mysteriously disappeared.
In any event, what I continue to have problems with are @.hinet.net email addresses. I’ve had problems where the Hinet user couldn’t receive my email but that I haven’t been notified of a rejection. Or, they’ve sent me email and I haven’t received and they didn’t receive a notice of a rejection on their end. It’s like it went into a a blackhole.
Recently I’ve received this:
[quote]This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
*@myweb.hinet.net[/quote]
Not receiving emails … I feel like I’m back in pre-Internet.
From work I can access all the sites I can’t from home. Great. Get a lot of 403 Forbidden errors at home on Hinet, or else no responses. Got to get round to changing to So-net…
