[CS-FSLUG] DNS blockages?

[Cia Watson]

I stopped using OpenDNS when I had at least 2 or 3 sites that were blocked
due to alleged 'adult content' when they were actually conservative and maybe
not 'mainstream' political blogs. 

I went back to my ISP's DNS and haven't had those issues since. I have
noticed that some sites get flagged with the Firefox 'WOT' add-on
as dangerous, but with that I can still visit the site. It's more
often with alternative health as well as some politically conservative sites.


On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:01:07 -0500 (CDT)
Ed Hurst <ehurst at soulkiln.org> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone else is suffering DNS outages trying to reach 
> any controversial political sites. I'm currently using Cox Cable and 
> there are times I get their error page for some sites. Even if I know 
> the IP address and use it directly in my browser, as soon as it starts 
> to load, the URL flahses, then the error page comes back.
> 
> If I try a "host" from the CLI, my own machine name gets appended. I 
> have little difficulty reaching these sites through proxies.
> 
> I'm running Scientific Linux 6 connected via a D-Link DIR-615 router. 
> Maybe it's time I configure it to some other DNS service.
> 
> Ed Hurst
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