Ok, have some more interesting info on the asinine IP ban situation.

By chance today I tried visiting the godaddy whois page, and guess what message popped up? The same "HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected." message I get when trying to access freedomainradio.com.

At this point it's probably safe to say that Molyneux is using Godaddy to host his web site. The irony here is rich: "Bob Parsons is a former Marine who supports Republican political candidates and has defended torture at the United States’ prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a means of protecting the United States “at all costs.”"


So Molyneux hosts his website with a company whose CEO is an ex-marine, and has openly advocated torture. Molyneux, maybe it's time to put your money where your mouth is, and shop for a new web host.

I am in the process of contacting godaddy support to appeal the IP ban.

How does that work, Stefan shouldn't be able to have such powers. It is a different server after all, right?

Given that the error message is coming from Microsoft Windows Internet Information Services, I originally thought that Molyneux's web site might be served from the same server that is hosting the godaddy Whois page.

Currently www.freedomainradio.com is being served from IP address 208.109.218.209

Reverse DNS for 208.109.218.209 is ip-208-109-218-209.ip.secureserver.net.

Secureserver.net is a GoDaddy domain (Wild West Domains)

Code:

Domain Name: SECURESERVER.NET   Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.   Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com   Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com   Name Server: CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET   Name Server: CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET

If you plug IP address 208.109.218.209 directly into a web browser bar the freedomainradio site loads. This leads me to believe that this IP address belongs to either a dedicated or virtual server, and not a web server with multiple shared hosting accounts.

pinging whois.godaddy.com yields the following

Code:

Pinging gdwho-v02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.178.211.43] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 68.178.211.43: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=112

Therefore the whois.godaddy.com web site is being served on a different IP address than the www.freedomainradio.com web site.

Strangely, I can access the freedomainradio web site from this particular client computer, yet I cannot access the godaddy whois page from both my home computer and this client computer.

I don't think it is related to freedomainradio at all. GoDaddy has probably put in place an ominous ban on all ip addresses for whois.godaddy.com is probably because who.godaddy.com seems to be the correct place to go.

I just got IP banned from the site. I was on it last night looking around to see what they were saying about the swine flu (nothing) and thought I'd check in this morning. Bam! Banned!

I'm sort of surprised it took this long. I've been wantonly clicking through links the whole time.

If you're interested in a large-scale solution to Internet anonymity, check out the Tor Project. Systems on the Tor network have their traffic distributed across the entire system, spanning many different networks in multiple countries.

They offer a browser plugin which you can turn on or off very easily. Unfortunately, the last time I tried Tor it was quite slow. But the more people who use it, the faster it will become. And even if it remains slow, it's still an effective way to completely anonymize selective network access.