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Posted by: Andrew Meredith (Monday 15 December 2008, 8:50 PM)

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What he said ...

While the page was blocked I did some experiments of my own. I already have my own DNS server, so I would question the assertion that this would bypass the block. I got a very bland 404 page. It certainly didn't protect me from the block on my Eclipse account.

However, the "Tor" onion routing proxy works an absolute treat.

For further info see
https://www.torproject.org/

Firefox users also see
https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/

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