protowall blocking doom9.org

[fisix]

not sure why, but the doom9 mirror i was stuck going to is on one of the blocklists that protowall uses. specifically, it is the anti p2p list.

the log looks like this:

2004/12/02 05:xx:xx [<-] BLOCKED [!] - Destination is Datability Software Systems, Inc. (140.99.103.150) [protocol: TCP / destport: 80]

anyone know why?

[Doom9]

blocking lists aren't perfect, and unfortunately the operatorors of such lists are rather quick to add addresses and very slow (down to not moving tempo) when it comes to unblocking a mistakenly blocked address. The Chinese mirror had to go through hoops until I was able to add it to my DNS provider (they use a spammer blocking list). That isn't to say such lists don't have their merits, but they're far from being perfect.

From a simple logic point of view, it wouldn't make much sense that piracy busters use the same server as I do.. there'd be a huge conflict of interest.

[fisix]

agreed on the last, except for the old adage: keep your enemies close.

but, frankly, that is a little too tin-foil-hat, even for me.

thanks for the reply