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missingpeople.org.uk blocked on Three

jon1

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I just saw a poster for this website (https://missingpeople.org.uk) in town and went to take a look, to find it blocked, and not by the adult filter page. Visiting in a browser will just cause it to load forever (timeout), over EE or a VPN it works fine. How is Three so incompetent? I can't see how this website would find itself onto any list they could be scraping from. They were called out for the Tutanota block a few weeks ago, they have much better things to be spending their time on than policing the internet for their customers.

Isn't this some kind of breach of Ofcoms rules?
 
I just saw a poster for this website (https://missingpeople.org.uk) in town and went to take a look, to find it blocked, and not by the adult filter page. Visiting in a browser will just cause it to load forever (timeout), over EE or a VPN it works fine. How is Three so incompetent? I can't see how this website would find itself onto any list they could be scraping from. They were called out for the Tutanota block a few weeks ago, they have much better things to be spending their time on than policing the internet for their customers.

Isn't this some kind of breach of Ofcoms rules?
Works here on Three.. Their network is a flippin swiss cheese.
 
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Works fine for me on Three, but I suspect my adult filter on Three will be disabled. Need to check.

UPDATE:

Enabled the adult filter and tried visiting the site again, but it still works.
 
I just saw a poster for this website (https://missingpeople.org.uk) in town and went to take a look, to find it blocked, and not by the adult filter page. Visiting in a browser will just cause it to load forever (timeout), over EE or a VPN it works fine. How is Three so incompetent? I can't see how this website would find itself onto any list they could be scraping from. They were called out for the Tutanota block a few weeks ago, they have much better things to be spending their time on than policing the internet for their customers.

Isn't this some kind of breach of Ofcoms rules?
Did domain name lookup fail or routing to the successfully looked up IP address fail?

To assist, below is the IP address I see for that name. If you stick that into a browser, it should give you an idea if there is a routing issue.

On visiting the IP address, I get "Error 1003 Direct IP access not allowed" as the server relies on access by URL but it indicates there's no routing issue and I can see the website using the URL.

[x@x ~]$ nslookup missingpeople.org.uk; date
Server: 192.168.x.1
Address: 192.168.x.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: missingpeople.org.uk
Address: 162.159.134.42

Thu 12 Jan 10:12:36 GMT 2023
 
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Apparently you can’t on mobile data iPhone

still not working after device restart, maybe it’s an adult filter block because I never turned it off
Interesting, didn't know you couldn't do that on the mobile phone connection. But here is a way to test it. Use a laptop to tether to the phone connection and then you should be able to see if it is a DNS issue or not.
 
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Hi guys,

I turned on my 4G router from last week to double check and I can’t visit the website on my phone via the router either, I’ll do a trace route on my computer and share it here in a few minutes
 
Another update, after sharing the connection from the SIM that still wasn't loading on my iPhone to my computer, and trying to load the site, it failed at first after about 10 seconds of loading and there was an error screen (chrome) for a few seconds, before the page reloaded and the site was there. It still won't load on the iPhone.

Sometimes the site loads, most of the time ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR, now it's not loading at all on the computer.
Here's a traceroute:

Code:
Tracing route to missingpeople.org.uk [162.159.134.42]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    37 ms    30 ms    38 ms  172.20.134.97
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    51 ms    32 ms    44 ms  172.20.176.21
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    42 ms    46 ms    40 ms  172.20.170.146
  9     *        *       46 ms  141.101.71.21
 10    45 ms    99 ms    57 ms  141.101.71.20
 11    73 ms   134 ms    33 ms  172.70.160.2
 12    43 ms    30 ms    43 ms  162.159.134.42

Trace complete.
 
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Seems like either a website problem or an iPhone problem. Routing looks ok which suggests unlikely to be an ISP issue.
 
Another update, after sharing the connection from the SIM that still wasn't loading on my iPhone to my computer, and trying to load the site, it failed at first after about 10 seconds of loading and there was an error screen (chrome) for a few seconds, before the page reloaded and the site was there. It still won't load on the iPhone.

Sometimes the site loads, most of the time ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR, now it's not loading at all on the computer.
Here's a traceroute:

Code:
Tracing route to missingpeople.org.uk [162.159.134.42]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    37 ms    30 ms    38 ms  172.20.134.97
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    51 ms    32 ms    44 ms  172.20.176.21
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    42 ms    46 ms    40 ms  172.20.170.146
  9     *        *       46 ms  141.101.71.21
 10    45 ms    99 ms    57 ms  141.101.71.20
 11    73 ms   134 ms    33 ms  172.70.160.2
 12    43 ms    30 ms    43 ms  162.159.134.42

Trace complete.
Try to disable Quic protocol in Chrome (assuming you use it), go in the address bar and toggle:

chrome://flags#enable-quic

Does it help?
 
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