NTL and unreachable sites

Hyzepher · 23-07-2007 04:46PM #1

Do NTL purposely block certain websites and I'm not talking porn or anything. There are a few sites that i tried to access this week - mostly hotels (mgmgrand.com etc) and they are not being resolved. I can access these at work or in an internet cafe. Anyone else have this issue

Noelie · 23-07-2007 04:48PM

Yeah, i'm not sure if they are blocked on perpose but you can't get into any of the vegas hotel/casino sites.

Gran Hermano · 23-07-2007 05:48PM

Not sure the reason why but Bellagio.com hasn't worked since early 2007
on NTL either.

Cabaal · 23-07-2007 08:28PM

I'd imagine its just a dns issue, use somebody elses DNS servers or use http://www.opendns.com/

Moriarty · 23-07-2007 09:00PM

It's an NTL DNS issue. I can access these sites fine on NTL. Follow the guide on www.opendns.com to add their servers to your pc and it'll work fine for you too.

dlofnep · 23-07-2007 09:07PM

Yeah, I've had alot of DNS problems on NTL too.

christophicus · 23-07-2007 09:37PM

Can keep your preferred dns as NTL and then have your alternate as open DNS? also what happens if you are using a router? so you still follow the same proceedure as described on the opwn source website?

donal.hunt · 23-07-2007 11:34PM

christophicus wrote:

Can keep your preferred dns as NTL and then have your alternate as open DNS? also what happens if you are using a router? so you still follow the same proceedure as described on the opwn source website?

I have a support issue open with one of the broadband engineers and the relevant team have been made aware of the issue. I haven't heard anything in other a month so I've just pinged them for an update.

will post an update once i know more.

Moriarty · 24-07-2007 02:51PM

christophicus wrote:

Can keep your preferred dns as NTL and then have your alternate as open DNS? also what happens if you are using a router? so you still follow the same proceedure as described on the opwn source website?

You can keep the NTL dns servers as primary if you like, but there's no need to. I don't use any of the NTL dns servers for instance. It doesn't matter if you're using a router, you use the exact same procedure.

christophicus · 24-07-2007 03:39PM

But dont you have to change the dns server that you router is going to attempt to contact aswell? I checked it out on open dns last night and there was a guide for routers too, so I was able to sort it out changein gthe dns in the router too. So now I have NTL as my primary dns and open dns's primary dns as my secondary dns. Can someone give me a site that does not work on NTL so I can see if the open dns is working. Thx.

markpb · 01-08-2007 10:42AM

I logged a support call with NTL about this and got a call from an engineer at 9pm on Monday. He confirmed it was a problem at their end and was going to pass it through to their network team and call me back.

NTL and unreachable sites

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