Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2014-01-24 Thread Amanda Sherrell
On Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:37:36 PM UTC-4, Sky King wrote: I came home from a trip, turned on my computer, and found that I am now blocked from certain favorite web sites. I am taken to a page at www.blocked-website.com which tells me, for example, Sorry, but (site) is blocked on this

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. OPEN is just the name of a server, and there are lots of DNS units throughout the world. The primary ip address for OPEN is 208.67.222.222 and the secondary ip address is 208.67.220.220 The purpose of a

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread peterhaas
The specified DNS can be changed (which is another subject) however the DNS is by default set by your internet provider. The default DNS can be reset by reseting your internet box. A lot of folks ELECT to use a secondary DNS as their primary DNS as that secondary DNS offers improved

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Jerry
Actually, its Domain Name System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System On 04/30/13 11:43 AM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings, DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:43 -0700 4/30/13, gifutiger wrote: DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. OPEN is just the name of a server, and there are lots of DNS units throughout the world. Just to avoid confusion. In this context DNS is Domain Name Server and is very much

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Jerry
Doug, I am not sure I am following you here on the on the RFC 1918 address space issue. Unless a person has set up an internal DNS server resolving private address space, a person would either typically specify the private address directly, or would use a hosts file for internal usage. Can

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Dan
At 4:00 PM -0500 04/30/2013, Jerry wrote: I am not sure I am following [Doug] here on the on the RFC 1918 address space issue. Unless a person has set up an internal DNS server resolving private address space, a person would either typically specify the private address directly, or would use

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Doug McNutt
We use a router provided by our service provider which used to be Qwest but is now Century Communications. The modem that talks to the telephone pair with radio frequency above the voice band also acts as a domain name server. Other machines which usually have cute names that we assign have

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-29 Thread Lawrence David Eden
A great solution is to find the fastest DNS serves in your area. Download a free copy of Namebench. It will find your best alternative. Larry It sounds like a DNS hijack. Change you dns provider with the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-29 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Open DNS runs through your router. I would just use the reset button on your router, and then go into the firmware and set new passwords and put all your settings back in place. Sent from my iPod -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread Eric Hall
It sounds like a DNS hijack. Change you dns provider with the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using If you don't like google DNS servers, use the one provided by your ISP. Eric From: Michael McMurtrey

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread johnhios
Michael McMurtrey wrote: I came home from a trip, turned on my computer, and found that I am now blocked from certain favorite web sites. I am taken to a page at www.blocked-website.com http://www.blocked-website.com which tells me, for example, Sorry, but (site) is blocked on this network.

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread Kris Tilford
I think this is likely correct, DNS hijack, however you may need to also change these DNS settings within your router itself, it's possible the DNS was hijacked at the router level. You'll need to navigate into your router controls and find the router DNS settings and use the public Google

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Michael McMurtrey wrote: I came home from a trip, turned on my computer, and found that I am now blocked from certain favorite web sites. I am taken to a page at www.blocked-website.com which tells me, for example, Sorry, but (site) is blocked on this

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread D. Fabel
If it isn't a hijack, perhaps your wife has changed your router settings... ??? Doug On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Eric Hall wrote: It sounds like a DNS hijack. Change you dns provider with the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using If you don't

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread kak
Or perhaps if you're connected to internet through a wi-fi, you might have accidentally linked onto a neighbor's connection that is using the openDNS blocker. (I have been using it personally, and have found it to be helpful in limiting teenagers, at least a little bit). KK On Apr 28, 2013,

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-28 Thread Dan
At 4:11 PM -0700 04/28/2013, Bruce Johnson wrote: I'm at a loss as to how this would lead you to OpenDNS blocking the site (as it should, if you're using OpenDNS as your DNS provider), though, as the whole point of DNS hijacking is to lead you away from valid DNS services like OpenDNS. Yea.