Firewall filtering out LDS.org
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:12 pm
Yes the subject line is correct. The 881 firewall in one of my buildings is periodically blocking all traffic to the lds.org domain. Turns out there is a rogue DNS server out there in the net-verse that is pointing some systems to the wrong IP address for LDS.org. The temporary fix that the GSC came up with is to add an entry to the HOST file of the local computers:
216.49.176.33 www.lds.org
This works well for any computer connected directly to the network that is always at the building, but it still has no affect for those that connect via wireless to the network.
So has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone else come up with a more permanent fix? An idea I had is to place a small DNS server software on one of the local computers (in the stake offices) with the permanent routing information for lds.org traffic, and then have the GSC add that address as a DNS server into the firewall. Any thoughts in regards to this.
This problem has been driving me NUTS for the past 3 weeks. Please help.
216.49.176.33 www.lds.org
This works well for any computer connected directly to the network that is always at the building, but it still has no affect for those that connect via wireless to the network.
So has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone else come up with a more permanent fix? An idea I had is to place a small DNS server software on one of the local computers (in the stake offices) with the permanent routing information for lds.org traffic, and then have the GSC add that address as a DNS server into the firewall. Any thoughts in regards to this.
This problem has been driving me NUTS for the past 3 weeks. Please help.