So after rebuilding my config and applying it to my unconfigured router, everything seems to be working fine, exept I can’t resolve one lone website: forums.debian.net.
I’ve tried using different browsers across two devices, and no luck.
My set-up is that I have 3x SSIDs. Home/Guest/IoT. The first two resolve to OpenDNS servers, while the IoT one resolves to Cloudflare DNS. I’ve tried connecting to the Home Network, and the IoT network on different devices but still with the same result.
So, the chances of the issue being with OpenDNS would be next to nothing.
I have got a friend to check from his network and that website resolves fine at his end. So, their server isn’t down.
It’s been down on my network for a few days now and may have co-insided with the new config. I’m not sure exactly. It’s not a website I frequent daily, but is useful when I need it.
I have no website blocker enabled on the router (well, none that I can see at least), so this seems very odd.
It doesn’t affect any other website I frequent, forum or otherwise (clearly I can access this site, for instance). I see nothing in logs. Not that I expected to, but checked anyway.
You may want to provide your config since that first line of your post already made it a suspect.
OT: as for OpenDNS not being a suspect, be careful with that statement.
Here in Belgium OpenDNS does NOT work anymore (already for some months) since they were convicted in court for not doing enough effort to block illegal streaming sites.
One day it simply stopped working and nobody was informed (apart from some specialized IT-related media, which is where I picked it up when researching possible reasons for the breakdown).
As for testing: you can already try 8.8.8.8 as well for DNS resolution.
If that also doesn't work, my first place to look would be config.
Interesting. Might be why it’s not blocking YT adds in Firefox? Brave has it’s own add blocker so works fine. Just as an aside, do you know if Cloudflare’s family DNS servers are better than OpenDNS?
I tested forum.debian.net at the office and also I’m unable to resolve it. Also tested on my mobile phone connected to the 5G so no wireless connection is enabled and I get the same thing.
It seems that there is no problem with your configuration but with this website.
As for config: despite what you set for the various networks, you resolved always to OpenDNS with those 2 firewall rules. Maybe something to revisit as well.
What are you trying to look for ?
People from various locations around the world indicate the url you provided does not work.
Why would it magically work from NZ then ?
Or is this something you set up (or someone else) recently ? In that case it can effectively take 48h before that info has been propagated across all servers.
