Blocked Internet

[Atip]

Somehow my IP address is blocked and I cannot access the Internet with Firefox or any browser.
No problem with Tor.
E-mail in and out and Skype is working, however, not working is slapt-get (gslapt) or wget.

Is there a way to make these 2 applications work with blocked IP address?

BTW I do not yet see wget-1.16 in the repos of Salix.

[gapan]

Somehow my IP address is blocked

What do you mean your IP address is blocked? By whom? And why? If you IP address is indeed blocked, you should contact your ISP, I don't think anybody else can help you with that.

and I cannot access the Internet with Firefox or any browser.
No problem with Tor.
E-mail in and out and Skype is working, however, not working is slapt-get (gslapt) or wget.

This might just be a different problem. Sounds like a DNS issue.

Try this:

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ping salixos.org

and post the output. Then try this:

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ping 84.200.32.138

and also post the output.

Is there a way to make these 2 applications work with blocked IP address?

Which 2 applications? You mentioned at least 4. And it's definitely not a problem with this or that application. It's a problem with your network connection.

BTW I do not yet see wget-1.16 in the repos of Salix.

Why do you think you should?

[Atip]

I tried to make myself clear and apparently failed.

Another attempt:

My IP address is blocked by my ISP and I know that only them
can unblock it. I do not ask for help for this.

For browsing I can use as an alternative to other browsers Tor.
Skype, e-mail or even GrabWeather are not affected.

However, slapt-get and wget are affected and cannot be opened.

So I am asking, as there is an alternative way for browsing using Tor
is there an alternative way for using slapt-get or wget when my IP address is blocked?

Hope this is clearer now.

As for wget:
I understand wget-1.14 has a security problem.

Wget versions prior to 1.16 are vulnerable to a symlink attack (CVE-2014-4877) when running in recursive mode with a FTP target,” said HD Moore, the chief research officer at Rapid7 who found the vulnerability, in a blog post Tuesday.

[gapan]

So I am asking, as there is an alternative way for browsing using Tor
is there an alternative way for using slapt-get or wget when my IP address is blocked?

Does ftp work? If it does, then you can just switch to using an ftp repository.

If not, then you can use a proxy with slapt-get. See slapt-get FAQ 24.

As for wget:
I understand wget-1.14 has a security problem.

Wget versions prior to 1.16 are vulnerable to a symlink attack (CVE-2014-4877) when running in recursive mode with a FTP target,” said HD Moore, the chief research officer at Rapid7 who found the vulnerability, in a blog post Tuesday.

From the slackware 14.1 changelog:

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Wed Oct 29 18:21:12 UTC 2014
patches/packages/wget-1.14-i486-3_slack14.1.txz:  Rebuilt.
  This update fixes a symlink vulnerability that could allow an attacker
  to write outside of the expected directory.
  For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4877
  (* Security fix *)

So, you don't need wget 1.16.

[westms]

With reference to the previous discussion, it does not look like as a "blockage" of the IP address. If all other protocols than HTTP are functioning, the IP address can not be blocked. If Skype, e-mail or GrabWeather are not affected, then it is not a blocked IP address. I suppose it is a dynamic IP address. This address the user receives by the internet service provider, after each login at the provider. How will this be blocked? Either one obtains an IP address or there is no connection. If one has no connection, then nothing works.

Rather HTTP may be blocked. This may have be caused by the internet service provider. But more likely the problem lies on the computers of the user. For example,

- The file /etc/services may be inaccurate in relation to HTTP
- A firewall is misconfigured so that services/protocols with respect to HTTP are excluded
- Auxiliary software, such as libraries for the use of the protocol stack with respect to HTTP are damaged or are of incorrect program version
- An "illegal" program update was made. That is, it is not from the Salix/Slackware packages repositories and now has side effects

You were asked about the output of

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ping salixos.org

and

ping 84.200.32.138

What are the outputs?

To use ping, a terminal must be opened, and the commands must be typed.

[Atip]

Just after I had sent my last post the blockage became complete, that is nothing worked
anymore at all for 2 days, except I could still ping my ISP. The blockage was lifted
last night.

Could not test anymore opening gslapt with ftp repository.

When I did ping salixos.org or 84.200.32.138 I had a time=of around 300+ ms.
A later attemp closed the server, no date available.

All is back to normal now.