Google.com Blocked by OpenDNS

Posted by Andrew on April 9th, 2008
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Calling OpenDNS! What’s going on?! I don’t live in China you know!

UPDATE 1: OpenDNS blocks Yahoo and Twitter too!

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UPDATE 2: I removed OpenDNS, entered PLDT’s DNS settings and restarted both my Linksys wireless router and modem. That seemed to have solved the problem. It looks like OpenDNS is misinterpreting my IP address as that of someone who lives in China a communist country.

If you’re wondering what PLDT’s DNS are, you can try out these:

58.69.254.71
58.69.254.133
58.69.254.3
58.69.254.8
58.69.254.138

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11 Comments

  • Ria Jose said:

    SERIOUSLY?!

  • cocoy said:

    did you ask opendns why? you can query their blog.

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  • David Ulevitch said:

    We’ve never blocked Google. Gosh, that’d be horrible!

  • Andrew said:

    @David: But you did and it’s a horrible thing!

  • brown said:

    OpenDNS only blocks what you want it to block, that user had “portals / search engines” category selected in his what to block options.

    I have been a OpenDNS user for 2 years now, i’m admin for 3 networks and they have ALWAYS only blocked what i HAD selected, its just that all those new categories let you fine tune what you want to block.

  • Andrew said:

    @Brown: I’m aware of that. These screenshots were by me on my computer. I would know if I blocked any sites on my network. But I didn’t. So why does OpenDNS block a bunch on sites not only on my computer, but on several pc’s who are not part of my network? I know for a fact that two of my friends are experiencing the same problem.

  • Ade said:

    That’s weird. i’m on PLDT and OpenDNS as well and I don’t have the same problem.

  • R said:

    I’ve been using OpenDNS and PLDT DSL for a long time now and I’ve never encountered that problem. OpenDNS has only blocked the websites that I’ve set it up to block.

  • Beej said:

    It’s been about a month now and I’m encountering the same problem. In fact, it’s gotten weirder. I tried to access youtube and I got the a similar looking page; except the text has changed. It now says : “IF YOU EXPERIENCE THIS PROBLEM, SEND SMS TO 2331(GLOBE/SUN/TM) AND 231(SMART/TNT) type BB JOSEF or also type BB NIKKI” (in the red font part) What the hell? Voting for the love team in Pinoy big brother teen edition will solve this problem?? Jeez. What’s going on???

  • king said:

    me too im experiencing it right now what should i do?


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