[UCIMC-Tech] no Google access for Bike Project, please help

[Mike Lehman]

Just as an aside that may be irrelevant...

In the past few months, I've deleted messages having to do with Google 
Adwords that were posted to the IMC-Fundraising list. Given that I am 
unaware of any ongoing relationship with Google and that it seemed like 
such messages were off-topic for the Finance list, I presumed this was 
just more spam. However, if this is part of the issue that most of us 
aren't aware of, I thought I'd mention it here.
Mike Lehman

Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  To anyone working on the building network this week, helping with with the
> current servers/websites outage:
>
> Please fix Google domain access for the Bike Project shop - at least for
> wired ethernet and (if time) also for basement wireless ethernet.
>
>   Do you need Bike Project to chip in money for some required equipment
> (or soley  purchase it)?  Would my own help for an evening be useful?
> (mid-level networking, Unix admin scripting/programming skills, can
> build ethernet cables, lift somewhat-heavy things).  On that last point
> -- do we have any internal documentation for building network setup,
> routers, firewalls, etc?   
>
>
>   I've been regularly asking for help with this for 4 months now,
> Bike Project needss web access to our own organization tools more than
> ever, this really is critical time because of recent increases in members and
> staff.
>
> (Note: nothing to do with current website outage)
>
>   Problem is: we can't access thousands of sites that happen to use tiny
> components served by Google. Also, no gmail (often vital) or google
> searches (not a problem, Yahoo is acceptable).  Has not worked for us
> since the connection was hooked up, late April 2008. Everything works
> except the handful of google-owned sites, and the vast army  of
> google-using sites.Been complaining for last 4 months since imc-tech
> list, individual tech people (who have kindly spent some time trying to
> fix this, but too busy to complete fix), at meetings (admittedly
> non-tech ones). Not our computer's fault, my Mac laptop sees same weird
> problem -- and it has connected just fine to google-sites and google on
> hundreds of networks.
>
>  Firewall problem?  Other?
>
>  What can we do to get this fixed?  
>  
>
>
>
>
>   If this has been worked on and fixed since I checked last week, sorry
> for rant, and thanks!
>
>   If not fixed, please help. 
>
>                     Barry  
>
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