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Resolved Unable to View New Site at Work

tubatodd

tubatodd

Oct 31, 2004
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Birmingham, AL
#1
It appears that something in talk bass is now being blocked by my company's filter. So none of the formatting is correct when I am at work. It is like the graphics and CSS is blocked. Are images and CSS being hosted somewhere new? So far...not happy with the format. Phpbb would have been a better software choice.
 
#5
I'm having the exact same issues. The page on my desktop at work is nothing but text, whether using Firefox or IE. On my phone it looks fine. This tells me that something about this new format is tripping off the security settings on some people's browsers. Yesterday TB worked just fine on my work desktop. Some please look in to this or I will have to do work at work instead of look at TB all day.
 
#6
socialleper said:
I'm having the exact same issues. The page on my desktop at work is nothing but text, whether using Firefox or IE. On my phone it looks fine. This tells me that something about this new format is tripping off the security settings on some people's browsers. Yesterday TB worked just fine on my work desktop. Some please look in to this or I will have to do work at work instead of look at TB all day.
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Same issue here. TB is unusable at work. White field with text only (but the ads seem to come across fine). When I tried to reply to this thread, I got an error message and could not continue. I'm on my phone at the moment and it seems to be normal.

I'll hold off commenting on the new format until I can see it properly rendered.
 
#9
Same issue with my work computer. Even with the "retro" engaged, no attachments, avatars, or formatting loads. They force us to use Internet Explorer version 9, which may be part of the problem. But in any event, the forum is almost unusable from there. Maybe I'll not be forced to actually, um, work, while I'm at work.
 
#12
paul said:
All images, javascript, css are served from our CDN: cdn.talkbass.co - if that helps. Sorry I can't control your company's firewalls...
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This problem is obviously wide spread and likely because the CSS/image host is on a block list. While it IS our problem, it is likely fixable on your end. Asking an employer to allow a host for a recreational site is not something that is going to fly with most employers including mine.
 
#13
tubatodd said:
This problem is obviously wide spread and likely because the CSS/image host is on a block list. While it IS our problem, it is likely fixable on your end. Asking an employer to allow a host for a recreational site is not something that is going to fly with most employers including mine.
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I figured it was being served from a CDN. Agreed - the problem is technically on our end but asking my employer to unblock is a non-starter. This is going to affect everybody that works at a company large enough to have IT security.
 
#15
I was right. Our corporate IT has the cdn blocked.
Code: 
[tmorgan@jaco] 1002 wget http://cdn.talkbass.co/xenforo/styles/talkbass/xenforo/logo.png
--2014-04-16 19:44:49--  http://cdn.talkbass.co/xenforo/styles/talkbass/xenforo/logo.png
Resolving cdn.talkbass.co (cdn.talkbass.co)... 108.161.189.192
Connecting to cdn.talkbass.co (cdn.talkbass.co)|108.161.189.192|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2014-04-16 19:44:49 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
[code]
More specifically, they likely have the source domain/url blocked.
Code: 
todd@tide:~$ ping cdn.talkbass.co
PING talkbass.talkmusicgroupin.netdna-cdn.com (108.161.189.192) 56(84) bytes of data.
[code]
 
#17
I think Paul does deserve some positive positive praise. I think after all of the issues get ironed out and everyone acclimated to the new setup, I think everyone will be happy again. As an IT guy, I've done various migrations from MS Exchange servers to database migrations to software migrations to full server migrations. It is never 100% out of the gate.
 
#18
tubatodd said:
I was right. Our corporate IT has the cdn blocked.
Code: 
[tmorgan@jaco] 1002 wget http://cdn.talkbass.co/xenforo/styles/talkbass/xenforo/logo.png
--2014-04-16 19:44:49--  http://cdn.talkbass.co/xenforo/styles/talkbass/xenforo/logo.png
Resolving cdn.talkbass.co (cdn.talkbass.co)... 108.161.189.192
Connecting to cdn.talkbass.co (cdn.talkbass.co)|108.161.189.192|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2014-04-16 19:44:49 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
[code]
More specifically, they likely have the source domain/url blocked.
Code: 
todd@tide:~$ ping cdn.talkbass.co
PING talkbass.talkmusicgroupin.netdna-cdn.com (108.161.189.192) 56(84) bytes of data.
[code]
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In this case, your got a 403 because the /xenforo/styles.... directory doesn't exist. It used to when this was a test board, but now everything is in the root / directory. So your examples above should be wget Link Removed
 
#19
The problem is still there.
Code: 
[tmorgan@jaco] 1001 wget http://cdn.talkbass.co/styles/talkbass/xenforo/logo.png
--2014-04-16 22:32:33--  http://cdn.talkbass.co/styles/talkbass/xenforo/logo.png
Resolving cdn.talkbass.co (cdn.talkbass.co)... 108.161.189.192
Connecting to cdn.talkbass.co (cdn.talkbass.co)|108.161.189.192|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2014-04-16 22:32:33 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

I checked a few different block lists and the main domain (netdna-cdn.com) and related servers is blocked on a few lists. I wonder if the "talkbass.talkmusicgroupin.netdna-cdn.com" hostname resolves to an IP that has a different dns entry that is on a block list.

In other words: talkbass.talkmusicgroupin.netdna-cdn.com and iamblocked.whatever.netdna-cdn.com have the same IP.
 

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