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Bogie

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Network filtration fun...
« on: November 09, 2008, 05:25:00 PM »
Out here in the boonies, we get our internet from a "large format" wireless broadband outfit... fairly decent speed actually...
 
And last night, it appears that during their weekly update, they installed some sort of filter software - thing called openDNS. Which is fairly closed... ARGH. Seems to be at their end.
 
Lets me get to THR (both), TFL, APS, etc., but won't let me see some business sites, foxnews.com, etc.... Oh, and www.playboy.com is also blocked... hannity.com and boortz.com aren't blocked... Why Fox?
 
Sheesh.
 
I'm going to tear someone, somewhere, a new one.
 
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Re: Network filtration fun...
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2008, 06:18:24 PM »
You might be able to get around it.  As the name implies opendns just changes the DNS servers the ISP provides to ones that filter your lookups, redirecting your lookup to a deny page if they don't like it.  Unless something has changed OpenDNS is by far the easiest content filter to bypass.

You could manually set your DNS servers on your PC to a different DNS server such as 4.2.2.2.  Then either reboot your PC or do a ipconfig /flushdns from the command line.

This assumes they are not filtering DNS traffic to servers outside of their network.  I've seen some smaller wannabe control freak providers do that, they do not usually last long.
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Re: Network filtration fun...
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2008, 10:08:20 PM »
I'd hope that's just a mistake.

What you can do, if you want to stick with OpenDNS, is start an account there and manage their settings for the actual IP you use.

I'd certainly notify the ISP that something is wrong.  This could be their fault or some random guy on the 'net that's on OpenDNS and recently had your IP.
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Re: Network filtration fun...
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2008, 11:04:38 PM »
Wait, so your ISP is blocking sites?  :O Can they do that?
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Re: Network filtration fun...
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2008, 12:38:05 AM »
Well, my ISP, by default, will stick you behind their firewall.  Which I promptly ask them to remove me from, because I run my own.

Anyways, I'd give them a polite phone call to ask what's up.

Going to the opendns site, foxnews.com is tagged as news/media, television.

The other sites aren't in their system, or in the case of boortz, uncategorized.

Maybe when they installed it they screwed up and blocked everything(or at least news/media; television).

edit:  freakazoid, it's a constant battle on whether they can do that or not.  One interesting concept is that if you provide filtration, you become liable for said filtration - IE if you let CP through you could be held liable.  Thus, most don't in order to shelter under the 'common carrier' legislation.
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