I just realized that RT (dot com) is inaccessible when Mullvad is enabled, even with all content blockers turned off. It says the DNS lookup failed. I tried from various countries too.
This post is not about endorsing or condemning any particular site, I just want to know if anyone knows whether there could be a technical reason for this? Or are we just banning sites we don't like now?
Edit: Solved. RT is blocking some Mullvad nodes, not the other way around. Works with a random Albania server and I assume some others.
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xot@someone.elses.computer · 25 pts · 323d
@Dr_Vindaloo Mullvad did not. The website blocked Mullvad.
ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw · 16 pts · 323d
It's because your vpn exit node was blocked by RT. You share IPs with other mullvad customers. Could be becaue someome was hacking or just hitting a rate limit. Try again later or use another exit node.
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d
I do not use Mullvad, however, I have had the same issue with sites, not rt(.com) in particular, but others. All I do is switch locales and usually the problem clears up. I haven't figured out exactly why. A lot of VPN IPs have a tendency to be abused and so a certain website may have blacklisted your IP number of the VPN locale you were/are using. Could be some scenario such as this.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 323d
ISOmorph@feddit.org · 5 pts · 323d
I assume he's talking about the DNS resolver within the app. Mullvad has a couple options: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
It works just fine for me btw, even when blocking ads and trackers
Sxan@piefed.zip · -1 pts · 323d
Also, if you use Mullvad's DNS servers, some level-1 DNS providers block Mullvad's level-2 servers, which means you can't even look up some sites. My solution was to use a web DNS lookup tool and add blocked resolves to my router's dnsmasq table. It's a shitty solution, but it works.