Getting denied access to loads of sites - OpenDNS issue?

[NeilF]

Noticed today I was not able to access certain sites. I was getting a "blocked due to ?????? reason". In the end I changed my DNS to google from 208.67.222.222 (OpenDNS) and all was OK.

Clearly OpenDNS have added some new policy?

For example, the following google news link would not work - http://news.google.co.uk/news/url?s...id=7467904134401359445&sid=en_uk:snc&ssid=snc

 

[NeilF]

I'm using OpenDNS and have no problem loading that webpage.

Odd! I had it start on two machines at home (visiting various sites)! I changed them both to use google DNS and problem went away.

 

[NeilF]

Is your ISP filtering website requests?

Checked with Sky, and the answer is no. No filtering enabled. Even enabled it and disabled it again.

Remember one day all was fine. Next I was getting the problem on both my machines at home.

The warning given was reported (at the bottom) as from OpenDNS.

Changed both PC's DNS IPs from OpenDNS to google and all OK.

 

[NeilF]

OpenDNS by default block certain sites, need make a free account and change the settings.

This was my take on it...

How does the account work though? ie: Your DNS setting just points to their IP address, how does that tell OpenDNS your account ID/preferences?

ps: Given this unwanted behaviour I'll stick with GoogleDNS.