Time outs to websites at work?

[Shyatic]

Okay here's the deal... I visit Slashdot and Neowin during work hours -- it's okay with my boss because they are tech sites and I only do it on downtime.

Lately however, and I don't know if it's coincidental, my boss told me I have to stop surfing when I have downtime. So now when I go to Neowin and Slashdot, I get timed out every time trying to visit them.

However, the easiest method would be to use our Websense software to block the site and then it's a given that I'm blocked. However, I'm not blocked on Websense, but rather timing out.

I switch to the DSL connection (we have it for outside consultants -- we don't want them on our network) and I can visit every site fine. It makes me think that my boss somehow disabled the site but is playing dumb. Question is, where would it get disabled that it times out? If it was blocked at the firewall level, I'd know about it because I'd see the error message. If it was blocked at Websense, I'd get an error about it. But it's timing out -- and yet will still work on the DSL connection.

Any ideas guys? Much appreciated. I hate nazi bosses

 

[SagaLore]

Websense doesn't just block, it monitors.

Apparently he decided that you were wasting way too much time on those sites.

It is in his best interest to keep you from completely wasting you downtime. Downtime is a great opportunity for researching and testing stuff.

 

[Shyatic]

I know it monitors -- I'm the websense administrator. We have logging disabled.

If you can't answer the question, don't reply to it.

EDIT:
I should mention... I'm not trying to unblock myself. I just want to know for my own sake whether my boss disabled access to the site or if it's something else that's going on.

 

[Shyatic]

up

 

[BAMAVOO]

Originally posted by: Scribe
I know it monitors -- I'm the websense administrator. We have logging disabled.

If you can't answer the question, don't reply to it.
EDIT:
I should mention... I'm not trying to unblock myself. I just want to know for my own sake whether my boss disabled access to the site or if it's something else that's going on.

With that attitude, you will be all alone in this thread.

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: Scribe
I know it monitors -- I'm the websense administrator. We have logging disabled.

If you can't answer the question, don't reply to it.
EDIT:
I should mention... I'm not trying to unblock myself. I just want to know for my own sake whether my boss disabled access to the site or if it's something else that's going on.

With that attitude, you will be all alone in this thread.

just another example of the direction ATOT is headed...sigh...

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: Scribe
I know it monitors -- I'm the websense administrator. We have logging disabled.

If you can't answer the question, don't reply to it.

EDIT:
I should mention... I'm not trying to unblock myself. I just want to know for my own sake whether my boss disabled access to the site or if it's something else that's going on.

He didn't know you were the websense administrator, so get off your high horse. I would think though, with you being websense admin and all, you should be able to answer part of your own question since you can just look and see if you are blocked with that.

 

[Shyatic]

Well what's the point of having a thread with question in it, and you reply to give me advice on other things?

If there are some people bright enough to point me in the right direction then that's great and if not, then I am not losing out on much by just asking.

 

[Shyatic]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers

Originally posted by: Scribe
I know it monitors -- I'm the websense administrator. We have logging disabled.

If you can't answer the question, don't reply to it.

EDIT:
I should mention... I'm not trying to unblock myself. I just want to know for my own sake whether my boss disabled access to the site or if it's something else that's going on.

He didn't know you were the websense administrator, so get off your high horse. I would think though, with you being websense admin and all, you should be able to answer part of your own question since you can just look and see if you are blocked with that.

I'm not blocked with that, and I wasn't on a high horse. He decided to 'fill in the blanks' with regard to what my boss thinks or what I should do (research and testing stuff). Which does only two things -- doesn't answer the initial question and then makes assumptions about my job and what I should be doing.

 

[ahurtt]

I assume that you already tried tracert?
Can you get to other sites ok? Or have you not tried any other ones?

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: Scribe
Well what's the point of having a thread with question in it, and you reply to give me advice on other things?

If there are some people bright enough to point me in the right direction then that's great and if not, then I am not losing out on much by just asking.

Probably because this is ATOT for starters. I'm sure theres another forum for a question like this. Wheres Nik when you need him?

 

[Shyatic]

Originally posted by: ahurtt
I assume that you already tried tracert?
Can you get to other sites ok? Or have you not tried any other ones?

Yea, times out right after the first hop. Thus it's on our end, and not the other.

 

[moshquerade]

are you on RoadRunner?

 

[Shyatic]

We are on an AT&T T1 line.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Scribe
We are on an AT&T T1 line.

something similar happened with RR a couple of weeks ago. people couldn't get to certain sites.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1705562&enterthread=y

 

[Shyatic]

It's not part of the outage... because it continues to happen and besides, it's on our end.