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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 03:15
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Well... I know I probably shouldn't access blocked sites at school, but I can get into youtube by simply typing in its IP in the address bar. So here's my simple question. How exactly do you find out the IP address of a site? Youtube's was easy to find as I just had to google 'youtube ip' and it came up first. But for any other site I can't find it.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 03:35
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Quote: "Well... I know I probably shouldn't access blocked sites at school, but I can get into youtube by simply typing in its IP in the address bar. So here's my simple question. How exactly do you find out the IP address of a site? Youtube's was easy to find as I just had to google 'youtube ip' and it came up first. But for any other site I can't find it."


Very nice, I've never thought of that. Go to RUN, and then type in CMD...

Command prompt. Type in Ping <website URL> and it'll bounce the IP address back... Some sites have multiple IP addresses.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 03:41 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 03:42
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Quote: "Very nice, I've never thought of that. Go to RUN, and then type in CMD...

Command prompt. Type in Ping <website URL> and it'll bounce the IP address back... Some sites have multiple IP addresses."


Depending on how these sites are blocked, it might not work. If the hosts file is modified to redirect certain hostnames then doing this won't work, as it's the same deal as trying to view a web site.

[edit] Although you could use this.
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 03:49
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Quote: "Although you could use this. "


What if that website is blocked?

And I have yet to find a site that redirects me based on hostname. Well a site worth opening up that happens to be blocked.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 03:53
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Quote: "What if that website is blocked? "


Use another site that does the same thing? I don't see why it would be blocked anyway.
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 04:00 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 04:04
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Quote: " I don't see why it would be blocked anyway."


This is the United States of America, where you can sue for spilling hot coffee on yourself.

(PS, I think Toasty is American because he has a dot com email address)

EDIT:

We have blocks for the stupidest reasons...

Prime example:



Now is that a dumb reason, or is that a dumb reason?
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 04:33
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Quote: "(PS, I think Toasty is American because he has a dot com email address)"


Rofl. Are you serious? Hotmail has to be the most common email address out there. And what do lawsuits have to do with webpage blocking?


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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 06:04
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Quote: "And what do lawsuits have to do with webpage blocking?"


Correlation. I was hoping Benjamin would see that as ridiculous as it is to sue people over frivolous matters, the same applies for blocking websites for frivolous reasons. Bad example, but I hope you get the drift. And using Maddox is another bad example....

I hope that made sense.
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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 06:26
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Now, now, just because it's geek culture doesn't mean he knows a lot about email domains.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 06:29
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Quote: "Now, now, just because it's geek culture doesn't mean he knows a lot about email domains. "


Well excuse me, I figured the UK uses .CO.UK rather than .COM...

Geez... And that Canada uses .CA
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 07:00
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Quote: "Well excuse me, I figured the UK uses .CO.UK rather than .COM...

Geez... And that Canada uses .CA "


Just take a look at the emails on this thread--- Ben's is a dot com, mine's a dot com, Sid's is a dot net, etc. You think only Americans use Gmail.com, Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, etc? I don't even think there's a hotmail.ca or gmail.ca...

But yes, that's neither here nor there I guess.


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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 07:02 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 07:02
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Quote: "Just take a look at the emails on this thread--- Ben's is a dot com, mine's a dot com, Sid's is a dot net, etc. You think only Americans use Gmail.com, Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, etc? I don't even think there's a hotmail.ca or gmail.ca...

But yes, that's neither here nor there I guess."


My bad then. I just figured that it's common for Europeans to have .co.uk in their email addresses, and for Canadians to have .ca for theirs (I remember seeing one long ago; that's why). Either that or bad memory...
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 07:28
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Toasty is Aussie. And like it was mentioned before, if that site doesn't work, there are others just like it.

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If you want to impress your friends, use my method. Anyone can search a website.. Anyone.
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 09:08 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 09:12
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Toasty, the best advice I have besides actually paying attention in school would be to set up a spare computer in your house as a proxy. The IT folks at your school (probably just glorified librarians who attend internet safety classes during the summer or some retarded crap like that) most likely know about kids being able to use IP's instead of URL's to go to sites. If this is the case, they have blocked both for popular sites.

By setting up your own computer at home as a proxy, you can enter your computer's IP and then use that as a proxy from school since it's not on the blacklist. That solution worked beautifully while I attended High School My IP was never blacklisted, but I believe you would be able to change your static IP to something else still and just wait for the next time they blacklist you.

Also note... try this at your own risk. Like I said, they are just glorified librarians these public school IT people... but if you go to dumb sites like pr0n sites or illegal sites while at school, and not harmless sites likes youtube, they could get serious enough to track you down. All they need to do is find out when you logged into your school computer, what computer you logged into, and then get the security camera tape. Big brother is watching you.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 09:39 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 09:40
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Run CMD, so you get into the dos prompt thing, then:

IPCONFIG

Will show you your IP address.

IPCONFIG /ALL

Will show you your IP address and also DNS server address.

IPCONFIG /RENEW

Will renew your IP address, like repairing the connection in Windows.


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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 12:55
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As if CMD is enabled.

On most high school computers you can't even open the Time and Date panel.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 13:38 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 13:38
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Quote: "I just figured that it's common for Europeans to have .co.uk in their email addresses"


Allow me to clear up the common misconception Americans seem to have that Europe refers to the United Kingdom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

See, one is a continent and one is NOT.
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 14:55
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Hmm when I was at school this website was blocked when I was caught viewing it after just having finished all of my work for the year for the subject. (sites were blocked during lessons if you weren't viewing something to do with your work)

Perhaps I should have asked for a work around then. I know one person that found a way to run .exes on the school computers and installed stuff like Age of Empires, so a bunch of people would take up the library computers to kill each other's civilisations. I don't think the admin was pleased.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 15:05
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The most frequent workaround is to type directories into IE's address bar. Come on, as if removing Run..., My Computer and Explorer's address bar/folder tree was gonna stop me! Used this method to install fonts that were needed.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 15:09
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Quote: "Toasty, the best advice I have besides actually paying attention in school"


Heh, the only time I actually get access to computers at school is in my spare time and in animation, and seeing I was using motion blur and onionskin while the teacher was explaining what layers do I don't think that matters a great deal...

Quote: "but if you go to dumb sites like pr0n sites or illegal sites while at school, and not harmless sites likes youtube,"


Nah, I'm not planning on doing anything like that. All I want to do is be able to reply to threads on mod sites. It'ts pretty annoying to use Google's cached system all the time.

Quote: "Like I said, they are just glorified librarians these public school IT people..."


No, our IT people are actually librarians...

Thanks for the tips, guys, I'll have a look and see what I can do.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 15:37 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 15:43
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We have a very snooty Head IT teacher so i alwasy wind him up by accessing youtube, or Newgrounds, thier his personal hates.

http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php

This is one i use, Type the address in here and you get the Ip, where the server is ect.

He has blocked every site, upto and including Google images, google maps, downgraded the flash to 7 unloaded CMD on most, the others have blocks, C: drive is locked+ hidden, everyhting we do is monitored.

He has a thing against me lol. I bring in my external Hdd with a full copy of my home pc, and boot that up instead. great thing is i can reconnect to the network through it , and access it as a admin, aww that really winds him up.

I unblock half a dozen sites, none that were security risks like downloaders ect, just Deviant art, locked the mature filter on ofc, an a few others but only for our year, were 17 ffs, were not going stare at porn in the middle of class -_-.

I got suspended untill he could patch up the hole i left ^^

He still never did it properly, he tried to lock Bios, which he did in the end, so a friend threw together a .bat which restarted the Pc and loaded my drive instead. hes a clever little bugger, i gave up with cmd notepad, after i lost files from lousy commading.

Oh his names Dameaon lol FTW!

Edit damm, someone beat me too it...

New idea,##

You cant use CMD can you?

The NOTEPAD it,

use the same commands and save the file as a .bat run it and its cmd command's

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 15:39
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Quote: "On most high school computers you can't even open the Time and Date panel."


If you mean with this the program execute scheduling thingy, its because it has a backdoor. If you can access to CMD and sheducle executing for certain exe you can access the computer as SYSTEM account. And it can do everything.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 15:52 Edited at: 10th Aug 2009 15:53
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This Time and Date panel. The time zones are all wrong on the Windows machines and the Macs; the Windows machines think they're in Korea and the Macs think they're in Cupertino.



Nothing in there really that dangerous. No scheduling, nothing. I suppose you could put the time about ten years back and enjoy a ten year session but other than that...

Quote: "The NOTEPAD it,

use the same commands and save the file as a .bat run it and its cmd command's"


As if they'd let you run .bats or .exes that haven't been signed.

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surpirsingly you can ^^

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The date and time is most likely set by the server, so alongside the scheduling system back door, it might also be because they just don't think students would need to change the time, and doing so would just cause confusion. It's just easier if all the PC's on a network take their time from the server, no need to make sure that nobody has messed with the time, put it forward 15 minutes so people leave their session early, that sort of thing.

There's one guy here who continually monitors his PC system time, tells me at least once a week how many minutes and seconds it's out by - as if I care!. The only problem is when daylight savings comes around and our backup station doesn't update it's time, and blocks communication because of the time difference - that's my insurance policy, as I'm the only one who knows about it - if they get rid of me then I know their backups will fail when daylight savings comes along again. It's also used for controlled documents, so it would really hurt for that to be down for very long muhahahaha indeed.


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Thats pretty messed up,

I like it ^^

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Most of the stuff on school pcs is blocked, and for a good reason too.
Its kinda amazing what you can do with whats left of you know how. My friend managed to access the internet through a message of the day boot up screen, via the print server (which is supposed to be inaccessible itself)

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Using the menu on most printers you can print out a statistics sheet detailing IP addresses, ports, and sometimes even the username that set it up.

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Our college computers used internet explorer so we had an idea of using portable firefox on a usb stick, I'm not sure why but it wouldn't get stopped by the filter system but it didn't so we could go to any sites we wished. The only downside was slow loading times and people catching you
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That's weird, I thought schools did server-side filtering?

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Someone tried Firefox here and it didn't work to get them into Youtube.

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My college has no filters at all...
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 16:26 Edited at: 11th Aug 2009 16:28
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Cass Tech has got no filters(After I was done, lol!)! WOOOHOOO!
The funny thing is, they've made the administrative password so simple, a 4-year-old could figure it out!

And yet, my other classmates pay me Big$$$ to open the "admin" account on their machines and disable the proxy server......

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Use nslookup in a command prompt to search your DNS (eg. nslookup www.yahoo.com). This isn't always that great so google nslookup and use an online one and a better database. A good one is http://www.zoneedit.com/lookup.html

I've used these for years now when setting up FTP connections at work. Normally works fine.

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