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Eir changed how they block sites?

Bandit0 · 2017-07-14 07:44:35

Hey everyone, quick one here; Does anyone know if eir recently upped their security game? I used to be able to bypass their website blocking by using public DNS, but that seems to have stopped working for me. If anyone knows about this change or is still able to access these sites using Google DNS for example, please let…

14-07-2017 07:44AM

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Bandit0

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Hey everyone, quick one here;

Does anyone know if eir recently upped their security game?
I used to be able to bypass their website blocking by using public DNS, but that seems to have stopped working for me.
If anyone knows about this change or is still able to access these sites using Google DNS for example, please let me know.

Thanks all!

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#2 14-07-2017 03:02PM
ED E

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Run
nslookup siteaddress.com
If that succeeds (will return an IP address for site) then Eir have null routed traffic to their IPs. The solution then is a VPN service (paid for, free ones are not always so free).

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