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HMthePM
11-28-2009, 06:10 PM
Today when I tried to login in FST, GFT, bitgamer etc some trackers, browser redirected to opendns block. Said those sites are categorized as p2p and I cannot access them.
Did anyone else had this problem?
anon
11-28-2009, 06:13 PM
I've been using OpenDNS for over a year and never had those issues. Furthermore, I just tried to access GFT and bG and they worked.

Can you post a screen of the "site blocked" page?
HMthePM
11-28-2009, 06:38 PM
Here they are
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8393/38715633.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/i/38715633.jpg/)
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2081/18630685.th.jpg (http://img257.imageshack.us/i/18630685.jpg/)
anon
11-28-2009, 06:43 PM
Not allowed on this network

Do you have an account on OpenDNS? If so, log in to it and check if P2P sites aren't blocked. Perhaps someone hacked it and enabled that.

If not, you can e-mail them about this. Make sure you write your IP range so that they can check who's causing the block.
Burnsy
11-28-2009, 06:44 PM
I've been using OpenDNS for over a year and never had those issues. Furthermore, I just tried to access GFT and bG and they worked.

Can you post a screen of the "site blocked" page?

Just as you suggested to me earlier to have a look at it :lol:
anon
11-28-2009, 06:46 PM
This issue isn't normal at all. I repeat, I have been using OpenDNS for more than a year, and have never seen that error message.
Burnsy
11-28-2009, 06:48 PM
This issue isn't normal at all. I repeat, I have been using OpenDNS for more than a year, and have never seen that error message.

Yeah, cool mate... not having a go, just thought it was funny with the timing of it etc :)
anon
11-28-2009, 06:50 PM
I know, and a part of me thought the same when this thread was started :lol:
Zaxx
11-28-2009, 06:50 PM
I've been using open dns for a long time....never had a p2p site blocked. :blink:
Must be your acct. setting or something. :unsure:
HMthePM
11-28-2009, 06:55 PM
I have also been using opendns for over a year. No problems ever.

I checked settings, filtering level is set to none. Anything else I missed.
anon
11-28-2009, 06:58 PM
I checked settings, filtering level is set to none. Anything else I missed.

I forgot my OpenDNS account details (only made that account to see what I could change), so I couldn't tell :lol:

But if you can't find anything suspicious, I'd be inclined to think someone on the same IP range as you has an account and has blocked P2P sites.
HMthePM
11-28-2009, 07:05 PM
Bloody Hell. Its working again.
Blocked for 2 hrs and everything fine again. I hope it keeps working now.
anon
11-28-2009, 07:12 PM
Good to hear. :)

If trackers are blocked again, you can always run ipconfig /flushdns to clear Windows's DNS cache and try again, just in case. Some browsers also implement an extra cache of their own - if you're on Firefox I think there's an addon to manage it, but you can easily flush it by closing and restarting the browser anyway :happy: