Help connecting to .org via the internet
 

I am currently in Villefranche-Sur-Mer on a 1 month French holiday. Maybe someone can help me with this. I have an apple mac-book pro which fired up to the apartment wi-fi with no problem except...I cannot log into my work site. Okay so boo-hoo here I am overlooking Cap Ferrat and I can't work. One of the reasons I was granted a lengthy vacation was that I promised to monitor my e-mail and put out fires while I was gone. The only thing I can think of is my work address ends in .org. I have no problems with any other web address.

Any body every come across this?

Hi chb,

Have never heard of such a problem before, though I guess it is technically possible for an ISP to block access to certain domains. Maybe it's just your employer's website that's down? Or it requires a VPN to be established in order to access it?

Try www.iata.org for example - if that site works, you probably have one of the issues I described above.

Hope this helps,
Andre

I agree that it doesn't make sense for the .org domain name to be a problem...

What exactly are your symptoms: is logging in refused? Does it say ``unknown host'' or ``DNS not available'' or what?

My guess is your employer has some type of firewall or protection measure up to protect against remote access (i.e. from hackers overseas), and forgot to mention it to you. This is a problem that your systems person (at work) will have to fix -- it might help if you could find out your IP number in France, so they can include you in the ``permitted'' list. ..

Any security conscious organization would require a VPN connection from outside the firewall. I presume you routinely connect to your work site from outside the company; I am presuming you already have a VPN setup on your Mac.

In this case, the type of VPN can affect the connection. If your VPN is pptp or ipsec based, it is likely that the VPN is blocked at your apartment. If that is what your company uses, you are out of luck. You need to find a hotspot that does not block the protocol you need.

Great thanks to all I could not access the www.iati.org site. When I try to access it comes back with "your computer is not connected to the internet."

I regularly can log in from home.

Is it possible that you code has run out and you're not aware of it? Out system requires a new code word every 30 days - and if you don't reset it in time it's impossible to get into your account until you get the administrator to give you a new entry code.

In any case - it's not the .org - I've reached a variety of us .org addresses from all over europe with no problem.

You definitely need to contact your IT people.

I can access that website and I'm in Paris right now. Of course, it's not the website, it's your computer probably. I've never had a Mac so don't know about them. Did you try other websites that end in .org to see if your assumption is correct? It's easy to test.

This probably has nothing to do with it, but once I couldn't connect to websites that ended in .gov at work and asked if anyone had heard of that and people speculated about my work blocking them (which wouldn't make any sense, as I do consulting to the govt. and couldn't do my work). It turned out to be something really esoteric in that my work computer routed through some server in the US that was having server problems with .gov websites. I think it was UUnet. I didn't even know my computer was somehow going through uunet's servers, but it was and that was the problem.