Bypass OpenDNS Blocked Sites At Work

Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 2:32PM

So your at work and you really want to watch that YouTube video your buddy sent you. But you can’t cuz YouTube is blocked. Well I’m here to show you how. This builds on a previous post I did about listening to Pandora in Canada. Your using the socks proxy we setup before but you still can’t watch YouTube clips because their being blocked at the DNS level. Nothing we can do about that right? Wrong. Lets configure Firefox to send DNS requests over the socks proxy. There by circumventing the DNS blocks at work.

Firefox - about:config

In Firefox type about:config into the address bar. Now type dns into the filter. Double-click on the network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to configure Firefox to send our DNS requests through the proxy. Voila! We can now laugh it up watching YouTube clips to our hearts content.

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  • Lukas Olbrich

    Doesnt Work

  • Lukas Olbrich

    Doesnt Work

  • Aaron Campbell

    Hi Tim. You just added me to your Twitter. I was going to do a tweet making fun of you but realized that would actually involve using Twitter, which is beneath me. Dammit man, it’s beneath us all!

    I hope you are well.

    Later T-bone. (Can I call you T-bone? It’s cool and tough.)

  • Aaron Campbell

    Hi Tim. You just added me to your Twitter. I was going to do a tweet making fun of you but realized that would actually involve using Twitter, which is beneath me. Dammit man, it’s beneath us all!

    I hope you are well.

    Later T-bone. (Can I call you T-bone? It’s cool and tough.)

  • Aslan

    doesn’t work please give some proper solution

  • Aslan

    doesn’t work please give some proper solution

  • Claudine

    It does not work :(

  • Claudine

    It does not work :(

  • hannah

    didn’t work

  • hannah

    didn’t work

  • Smarty

    doesn't freaking work.
    thanx nonetheless.

  • CrashCore

    I can’t believe this article isn’t wildly popular. It works perfectly! Many people post online looking for ways to bypass OpenDNS, and this is the only page on which I’ve seen this wonderful solution. Thanks!

  • Andrewjacksonthethird

    Err, could someone please give me a detailed walkthrough on how to do this? Thank you.

  • Dspotts

    i’m a lil slower then most with this, can you explain a lil better? i’m able to access vezg.com but i donot understand how to set up this working proxy in firefox?

  • CrashCore

    Web proxies are different than SOCKS or HTTP proxies, the former of which is easier and doesn’t require this method but also doesn’t work with all sites. Instead, set up FireFox to use a proxy (google it if you don’t know how; it’s simple) and then try some of these servers (http://aliveproxy.com/socks5-list/).

  • Unfortunate

    This caused Firefox to crash when I attempted to access a website. I reopened it and it worked fine until I tried to go anywhere, when it crashed again. I’m betting it’s because proxies are blocked by OpenDNS.

  • Green

    Doesn’t work. Sorry.

  • Ezthepez

    it doesnt work anymore……..

  • saskurenai

    this dowsn’t work u moron!?,.

  • Gunaa

     Waste one…

  • Gunaa

    Waste one

  • Asf

    Follow the guide on Pandora in Canada first. Duh.

  • Fredy

    tested on my campus, it’s working!! Follow the Putty tutorial first then step next at this one*dood*

  • Debjit Ghosh

    No, this is vogasssssss. Not working

  • Networkninja

    the part you leave out is that you also now get fired ;)