Website Blocked by Verizon DSL at home

[gkp00co]

I can no longer access my own website which is being hosted by a third party; I had no difficulty up to just 2 days ago. Now - nothing. No webpages, no email, no ftp, no access at all. Not even pings. I suspected DNS until I was able to access my site at work and others seem to have no trouble either. It's just Verizon.
The blocking has seriously impacted my ability to retreive emails or to perform any maintenance on my site which has an international audience.

[dslr595148]

If you have reason to believe it is DNS related, then use a DNS server checker like

http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

[gkp00co]

You didn't even read what I wrote, did you?

How can it be a DNS problem if I can access the site from work but not from home? Mind you, a week ago I could access it from either.

I worked-around the problem. Apparently the IP address you assigned to me was flagged as a source of malware of some sort. No doubt you have access to the same black-lists that my little hosting service does, so you knew (or should have known) that you were assigning me a bad IP address before it happened.

I worked around the problem by turning-OFF the DSL box for a few hours and hoped that I'd be assigned a different IP later. That worked, so now you've given somebody else has the bad IP address that I had and you may well get a call from them.

The problem (that your service caused) is solved, no thanks to anyone at Verizon.

[PC_Mac]

I have a similar problem with accessing the Morningstar website but I believe it is a DNS server issue.  I keep getting redirected to the Australian site.  I don't have this problem when I access the site using Clearwire.  

[somegirl]

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@gkp00co wrote:

You didn't even read what I wrote, did you?

How can it be a DNS problem if I can access the site from work but not from home? Mind you, a week ago I could access it from either.

I worked-around the problem. Apparently the IP address you assigned to me was flagged as a source of malware of some sort. No doubt you have access to the same black-lists that my little hosting service does, so you knew (or should have known) that you were assigning me a bad IP address before it happened.

I worked around the problem by turning-OFF the DSL box for a few hours and hoped that I'd be assigned a different IP later. That worked, so now you've given somebody else has the bad IP address that I had and you may well get a call from them.

The problem (that your service caused) is solved, no thanks to anyone at Verizon.

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1. I'm noticing a lot of "you" in there, and I think perhaps you are a bit confused. This is a peer-to-peer support forum. Posters are fellow end-users like you unless noted as a Verizon Employee via rank and/or avatar. We had nothing to do with assigning your IP address.

2. Verizon assigns IP addresses dynamically. It's an automatic process, no one is manually handing out IPs.

3. The issue is not with the IP addresses that Verizon assigns, but with the blacklists not updating the IP addresses when they are changed. Verizon can't change third party sites' lists; it is up to the listing site to keep their filters updated.