Nemesis-301
I am with sodetel, and those sites won't open with me either.
hussam
Edit your hosts file and add the following entries
141.0.174.41 xnxx.com www.xnxx.com xvideos.com www.xvideos.com
The file should be somewhere like c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts if I remember correctly.
If windows doesn't like multiple domains per entry, just create 4 entries in the hosts file.
So something like:
141.0.174.38 xnxx.com
141.0.174.39 www.xnxx.com
141.0.174.40 xvideos.com
141.0.174.41 www.xvideos.com
Michael961
So this appears to be a Lebanon wide issue. Odd. I wonder why it works on LTE though?
@Rolf, thank you for the suggestion. I tried going through the IPs, it will tell me that the website has moved.
As for the DNS change suggestion, I'm not home right now, but will definitely give it a try once I am.
@Hussam, if Rolf's suggestion doesn't work, I will try yours see if it works.
Thank you for your help guys.
And if it turns out that Lebanon is actually attempting to censure part of the web, you think maybe we should contact someone? Media perhaps?
cpt-majed
Michael961 wroteSo this appears to be a Lebanon wide issue. Odd. I wonder why it works on LTE though?
@Rolf, thank you for the suggestion. I tried going through the IPs, it will tell me that the website has moved.
As for the DNS change suggestion, I'm not home right now, but will definitely give it a try once I am.
@Hussam, if Rolf's suggestion doesn't work, I will try yours see if it works.
Thank you for your help guys.
And if it turns out that Lebanon is actually attempting to censure part of the web, you think maybe we should contact someone? Media perhaps?
If they censor anything else than porn, maybe you can talk to the media but not porn!
the public won't treat porn censorship as a bad thing but if now they censor porn then maybe later they will censor more crucial stuff and bye bye freedom.
hussam
Michael961 wroteAnd if it turns out that Lebanon is actually attempting to censure part of the web, you think maybe we should contact someone? Media perhaps?
That is a difficult question since words can be easily twisted to get the kind of response and reaction the media wants from people.
You can get the answer you want by how you phrase the question.
For instance, if you ask people if censorship is bad, everyone will say yes.
But if you ask people if it is Ok for 13 year old kids to be looking at porn, they will say no.
Michael961
I tried changing the DNS to Google's public ones, everything worked normally except those 2 websites. Not working.
Changing the host file didn't help either. I could always use a VPN, but not willing to go through that just for those 2 websites.
I just don't understand why they would block them though.
rolf
Please try running the nslookup command that I pasted in my previous post, and post the results here. I'd like to see them.
There should also be a way of sending the domain in the HTTP header - the IPs above are valid but when you open the IP your browser it does not send the domain name in the request, and the server seems to be configured to serve that blue redirect page in these situations. Basically if the IP is accessible directly then we should have everything needed to open the site, if we could only change some parameters in the browser request.
Another thing which nobody mentioned, and which should be mentioned, is that it's possible for you to be blocked from the porn site . They may be doing some kind of geographical filtering. If that's the case then there's not much which can be done except going through a proxy.
That would explain things a little, because it's just strange how you can access the IP but not the website.
Michael961
So this is the result of the nslookup command:
C:\>nslookup xnxx.com 8.8.8.8
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: xnxx.com
Addresses: 141.0.174.34
141.0.174.35
141.0.174.36
141.0.174.37
141.0.174.38
141.0.174.39
141.0.174.40
141.0.174.41
m_zeid
mmmmm if a post is deleted, shouldn't I receive some sort of a message about that and explaining why?
wassaaap mod?
m_zeid
regarding the blockage of some porn websites, on friday night xnxx was blocked, with a message stating that it is blocked after a request from a court order or something. Yet xvideos was working flawlessly.
yesterday after seeing your post and also today both websites are working 100%
I'm with Wise.
Michael961
@m_zeid, so that means that so far, it's just Ogero. Like I said before, they both work fine on my phone's LTE. Wish you had saved that message though. Things are getting interesting.
Hybrid
Maybe that's the big plan of making the internet faster. Blocking porn means much less streaming. Of course not everyone knows knows how to use a VPN, proxy, tunneling... YET
hussam
Do Ogero http requests go through some proxy? if so, they could be using it to hardcode DNS requests.
Nemesis-301
why the hell would they block those 2 sites and not block sites such as: (these sites might be disturbing for some) theync.com, humoron.com, bestgore.com, efukt.com, xhamster.com, pornhub.com...
geekevo
I don't get it either why block only these 2 sites when there are plenty more.
rolf
Thanks for the info michael.
Now I have a better idea of what is happening. But I'm out of ideas for solving the problem.
Hybrid
Last time I Checked they were the top 2 porn sites visited from Lebanon according to Alexa. Yea I know it's not very accurate but still.. Maybe that's the reason
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en, you can thank me after watching your porn.
Johnaudi
Have you tried anonymouse browsing? I know it's not that helpful but still a temporary solution.
Michael961
@Rolf,
Thank you for trying to help.
@Hybrid,
It is much simple to use hola unblocker on Chrome. I use it most of the time to access Pandora. But I tried with xnxx and xvideos, it works just fine.
@Johnaudi,
Anonymous browsing doesn't work :)
rolf
hussam wroteDo Ogero http requests go through some proxy? if so, they could be using it to hardcode DNS requests.
I think they are filtering according to the host domain in the HTTP request. The IPs are accessible, so is google's DNS server, but neither of these workarounds solve the problem.
That is of course assuming that the filtering is happening in Lebanon. As I said it is possible that it is the website itself that would block traffic. Why they would do that, who knows.
