"Recently on a cruise ship I found my SSH access blocked."
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"And HTTP proxies were blocked too."
What would the possible rationale for this be ? I can understand these being blocked in, say, a non-western hotel inside mainland China ... or in a .gov lobby ... or ... ?
But on a cruise ship - the maintainers of that network must know that guests on the ship might have remote work to do - or just workflows that involve something beyond "the web".
Further, the bandwidth generated by web usage typically dwarfs bandwidth usage over VPNs or actual SSH ...
They have likely blocked every port except 80 and 443, in a misguided attempt to either limit bandwidth or increase security. I have seen such systems in some hospitals, it was pretty annoying.
A bandwidth thing. They also had bandwidth limits, but I think they were playing big brother to stop disgruntled customers from running out after watching 8.5 minutes of Netflix.
> that network must know that guests on the ship might have remote work to do - or just workflows that involve something beyond "the web"
You'd think so.
This particular cruise line (Holland America) is known for its older travelers.
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"And HTTP proxies were blocked too."
What would the possible rationale for this be ? I can understand these being blocked in, say, a non-western hotel inside mainland China ... or in a .gov lobby ... or ... ?
But on a cruise ship - the maintainers of that network must know that guests on the ship might have remote work to do - or just workflows that involve something beyond "the web".
Further, the bandwidth generated by web usage typically dwarfs bandwidth usage over VPNs or actual SSH ...
What are they thinking ?