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| ebastler:
--- Quote from: ataradov on April 12, 2023, 12:36:41 am ---The issue here seems to be site owner incompetence rather than some blocking. --- End quote --- That would be reassuring -- but would also point to massive incompentence of the ISP's technical support staff, who have apparently confirmed the blocking on two separate occasions? |
| ataradov:
--- Quote from: ebastler on April 13, 2023, 07:48:12 pm ---That would be reassuring -- but would also point to massive incompentence of the ISP's technical support staff, who have apparently confirmed the blocking on two separate occasions? --- End quote --- Yeah, it is both here. ISP is some small time regional ISP that actually takes customer calls and has some delusional "protection" policies. But the fact that www and non-www domains resolve to different things is purely on the owner. |
| rhb:
Actually I'm guessing my ISP is now much larger. In my case prepending www has no effect. Yesterday I got a 3rd call from a"supervisor" who did not even know what DNS is. She just claimed they don't block sites despite obvious evidence that they do, but wouldn't let me to speak to anyone who understood how the Interner works. I'm going to get Starlink. |
| magic:
IOW, no one has any idea what's going on and your "obvious evidence" is contrary statements from different representatives of the same company. tcpdump time? traceroute/tracepath? |
| Infraviolet:
I've often found alternative DNS doesn't help. My ISP was blocking a website about machine tool design as "adult content". A VPN is effective where changing DNS doesn't help. There are some reasonably trustworthy free VPNs for situations where the things you're accessing are blocked but are not something you need to keep secure. That is to say if you're visiting a website which is blocked to view articles or watch videos that's fine, but whether one could trust a free priced VPN if your primary email provider became blocked or your bank's website is another matter. rhb your ISP's claim "not to block sites" might be true from their perspective, often ISPs are reselling the service of another ISP. Your's might not block anything, but if the company that actually runs the infrastructure they resell is blocking then you'd still hit such blocks unless you VPN around them. |
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