Argh edugeek is blocked with netsweeper

[reggiep]

Argh, Our LA changed to netsweeper for our filter solution over half term.

All blogs are now blocked, and anything with the word forum is out too, so I can't access edugeek in the day.

I ran the tech support in the LA and they tel me that we will be getting training in a few weeks and then we can unblock certain sites.

A few weeks!!!!

They won't unblock sites for us in the meantime. :mad::mad:

[AngryTechnician]

I feel your pain; our LEA has similarly draconian blocks. Makes trying to find solutions online while at LEA-served sites a complete PITA.

 

Amusingly, they tell you what category each blocked site has been put under when you try to access it; I say amusing because my personal website was categorised "Tasteless/Questionable/Illegal". At one point they also blocked anything with "mail" in the URL. That changed when many school's bursars complained they could no longer get to http://www.royalmail.co.uk

 

Our school moved away from the LEA-provided connection some years ago.

[richard.thomas]

Netsweeper blocked it for me aswell, but only if I went to edugeek.net, EduGeek.net worked fine. Was abit strange!

[ZeroHour]

How are they with you using ssl?

That must be block tbh as they cant scan content easily.