I ran into someone from Net Control, in
the hall, on Friday, and asked him who does the blocking, and he said that it
is mostly TNOSC but that they can locally block or un-block as well. He
thought it unlikely that they were locally adding mac.com at Fort Monmouth, but suggested I put in
an official request to look into it. I did that, and was asked for more
information before it was passed on to someone who would look into it. So
far I haven't received a response, but I expect that I will shortly.
Perhaps some local DOIMS take a more active role in this than others.
Also the person I spoke to, while in the department that handles it, was not
directly involved in firewall issues (maybe those guys don't come out in
the hall much), so he wasn't absolutely authoritative in his answer.
David Sanderson
Visual Information Systems Analyst
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[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+david.c.sanderson=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Monahan, Jim CONT ATSC
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006
1:39 PM
To: Sanderson, David C MONMOUTH
DOIM CTSC; 'email@hidden'
Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Government
Blocking of Mac.com
Interesting...we are told it's
(mostly) controlled by local DOIM. Now...what entity provides the
software/master block list to local DOIM amy be another story :)
I've noticed some sites are not blocked during
specific hours, like 12-1, or 5p-7a, but are blocked during 'normal' work
hours.
Jim
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On Behalf Of Sanderson, David C MONMOUTH DOIM CTSC
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Government
Blocking of Mac.com
As I understand it, the blocking we experience at Fort
Monmouth is not locally administered. It's done by TNOSC, and I would
think it is generally the same Army wide, or at least a big chunk of the
Army. I see all kinds of silly things being blocked sometimes for
years and other times I check back in a few days and it's no longer blocked.
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006
10:14 AM
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Subject: [Fed-Talk] Government
Blocking of Mac.com
Is any military or govt. site besides Ft. Monmouth
blocking www.mac.com as a malicious P2P/File Sharing site?
I'd be interested in the rationale. Is there anything
on www.mac.com that couldn't be found on yahoo mail, aol, etc...?
RC