September 04, 2007

Access Blocked Website


We have faced this trouble at college, office, organization, Institute etc. They blocked interesting websites like Yahoo!, Orkut etc and we cannot access what we want.

What is story behind website blocking?

There are number of Employees and students access interesting websites at office and college respectively and waste important office/college time. So, organization and institute block few websites and stop them to surf. Where, System Administrator makes a database on server level with installed filtering mechanism. So, when you type URL in your address bar and hit enter. The entire request passes through server. At that time, that filtering mechanism match you’re request and check whether it is blocked or not. If it is not blocked then you’ll get request back and display you’re requested site in your browser. But, if it is blocked then it will display modified error message and stop you to surf. Here, you just need to make fool you’re system administrator as well as installed filtering mechanism. There’s more than one way you gain access blocked website. I have described few ways here. Are you ready??!!!

(1) Use IP address instead of URL:

We use to type www.yahoo.com, www.hotmail.com which is just URL (Unique Resource Locator) and it is easy to remember, easy to type etc. But, actually every URL has an IP address. Please check older posts named IP Address and DNS Lookup. Still, some system administrators use only URL based blocking activities. So if you type URL then it will block your request but if you use IP address in different forms like dotted, dword, hexed or octal then you’ll get access of requested site. So, you can access blocked sites thru its IP address.

(2) Web-based Anonymous surf:

There is a lot websites which provides this kind of surfing and keep your identity hide. It’s called Anonymous Surfing. In this case, you just need to find an anonymous site which provides you a separate address bar on it where you can type blocked site’s URL and will gain access same. I myself also posted some anonymous sites’ addresses at Anonymous Surfing link. You can access blocked websites through this kind of anonymous website.

(3) Machine-based Anonymous Surfing:

It is also known as 'HTTP Tunnel'. As described above, there are few software are available in market for Anonymous Surfing. You can download them and install it in you computer so it is known as Machined-based Anonymous Surfing. I have picked few software like The Privacy Guard, Hide My IP, Hide IP Platinum, Invisible Browsing etc. The Privacy Guard is my favorite one. Just download any Anonymous Software, install it and start surfing blocked website.

(4) Manually Proxy Setup:

This is another very good trick against blocked website. Every Internet browser has inbuilt proxy setting facility. You just need to go there and set Anonymous IP with its port number at appropriate space. There are thousands of Proxy server’s IP available on Internet. You can find and test from www.samair.ru/proxy. Just pick up one IP with its relative port number and define it as your proxy. For proxy settings in Internet Explorer just go to ‘Tools’ menu then goes to ‘Internet options’. You will get window of ‘Internet options’. Now please check following real screen shot and set proxy as per your Internet connection type.

You can set proxy on Mozilla Firefox browser and other browser as like as Internet Explorer.

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