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FAQ Article: How can I access blocked websites?

I have had quite a few requests from people asking me how to access sites that are blocked at college or at work. It is quite difficult, if not impossible, for me to tell you exactly how to bypass the proxy server. This is because there are so many different ones out there, and bypassing one relies heavily on how the computers are set up.

Anyhow, here are a couple of techniques to access blocked web sites which might just work!

Technique 1

Say there is an url that you really want to get to - e.g.www.hackers.com - but whenever you try to access it you get "Access Denied" or something similar. One way I have found which sometimes works is to:

Go to http://come.to (or any other redirection service) and set up a new redirection url. A redirection url is an address which will take you somewhere else when you type it in. Typically these are used by people who have free webspace with really really long urls like http://www.myfreespaceonmyisp.com/users/herman/index.htm - now thats not a good address is it? So, the owner of the site would go to a redirection service (like come.to) and register a redirect url. Then, instead of giving out the long url to all his friends, he can give them the new, shorter redirect url - which would typically be something like: http://come.to/herman

Set up the redirect url to go to the banned web site - in this case http://www.hackers.com

Once registered - simply type your redirect url and bingo! if it works you will be taken to the banned site!

This may or may not work - I have had this work for me though. It works because the title at the top of the browser and the address in the the url box remain the redirect url and do not change to the banned site.

Technique 2

Optiklenz from "Legions Of the Underground" has a method called the ' Defunct IP Protocol' which may just work:

If you take an IP in standard form, and convert it to a defunct IP (this is how optiklenz reffers to it) the defunct IP will still work just like the normal IP, but because it has no decimals separating segments it is perceived as an Intranet host rather than an IP - and Intranet hosts usually have very little security precautions assigned to them.

Here is optiklenz's description of how a defunct IP is created form a standard IP:

Seeing that IP's are 32 bits in 4 8bit segments. If you take 32 (bits of the ip) and multiply it by 8(bits of each ip segment) you get 256 bits or a cluster of 1's, and 0's depending on how you are looking at it. =]

The give an example of how we go from an IP in decimal form to a defunct ip. We'll use www.legions.org. Resolve the domain name. In this case we have 199.227.88.145:

[segments referred to as SEG]

********************

256| 3-2-1 method...

********************

32(8) = 256

|_SEG1(199)*256^3

|

SEG2(227)*256^2_+

|

SEG3(88)*256_+

|

SEG4(145)_+

|

145_+ -= 3353565329 (new identifier)

Defunct IP: The reason I call the new identifier a defunct IP is because when it goes through the above process it is no longer decimal form. So I refer to it as a "dead ip"

Now, this defunct IP is no longer really an IP and therefore any security implementations that occur for an IP address are no longer present. So, to answer the question above, If you have access to a computer where internet sites are blocked behind a proxy, you can use the defunct IP so that the security measures no longer apply.

E.G.

www.legions.org >> Blocked by Proxy

199.227.88.145 (IP of www.legions.org) >> Blocked by Proxy

3353565329 (Defunct IP for www.legions.org) >> Allowed

You can see that this is an important factor for any system admin to take on board. Now, lets make it clear - this technique is not very likely to work on the web site that you want to access...but its worth a try!

There is a program I made called DIP.EXE which will convert a hostname to an IP address, and then convert the IP to a DIP. Try it by downloading Wang Hack FAQ Volume 5 from: http://www.wangproducts.com/article.php#vol5.

Posted on: 19-08-1999
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Comments

Comment by Colton - 08-12-2005

there is a site called stupidcensorship.com that also works :)

Comment by Paul Rogers - 19-02-2006

You can also bypass college, school, work firewalls etc via a web-based proxy, http://www.ukproxy.com/ is what I use, it works wonders.

Comment by Dave - 25-05-2006

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Comment by tami - 28-08-2006

please

Comment by Rajesh - 18-11-2006

Try http://www.hideu.net for accessing blocked websites

Hideu is a free web-based anonymous proxy service, which allows anyone to surf the web with privacy and security. There is no software to install, and it is completely free! By using HIDEU, you can surf websites but hackers or website owners cannot identify or track you. The service hides your IP address, and it prevents monitoring of your network traffic.

Comment by greg - 22-12-2006

all the web sites that u name r blocked

Comment by Wang - 31-12-2006

Sorry, this article is a bit old and was originally published in 2002 I think! You will therefore find that some links are bad, and there is probably better info elsewhere on the web.

Comment by Anonymous - 13-03-2007

I have been using bypass.thezerogroup.com for the last few months from school with out issue.

Comment by Steve - 13-03-2007

check out bypassrestriction.com

Comment by Annie - 02-04-2007

Nothing I do seems to work from this or any other site. Cant access any proxy lists. Any other suggestions?

Comment by Wang - 03-04-2007

Id like to point out that this article was written about 7 years or more back lol...you cant expect all the things to still work!

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