Bypassing OpenDNS

Apparently a couple people stumbled across our humble little blog while searching for how to bypass OpenDNS’s content filtering. Originally I scoffed at the idea of using OpenDNS as a security, because I thought it was just blocking evil or malicious DNS queries. But after doing more research, it’s actually sets up a full web proxy! So much for an easy bypass. All that is left to do is change the DNS servers your computer uses to some other than OpenDNS. Although if you are in an environment which filters your web traffic, you probably will not be able to do this. But, if you can, just set it to one of these bad boys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver#Root_server_addresses

Or use another proxy of some kind. The Pirate Bay is suppose to start running a anonymous proxying service which would allow you to bypass OpenDNS, but setting it up would require you to run as an administrator on your computer, something you probably are not able to do.

Godspeed, circumventors. Godspeed.

EDIT:

Please refer to a followup post: http://www.sector930.com/blog/2009/05/13/opendns-a-followup/

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