I just realized that RT (dot com) is inaccessible when Mullvad is enabled, even with all content blockers turned off. It says the DNS lookup failed. I tried from various countries too.

This post is not about endorsing or condemning any particular site, I just want to know if anyone knows whether there could be a technical reason for this? Or are we just banning sites we don’t like now?

Edit: Solved. RT is blocking some Mullvad nodes, not the other way around. Works with a random Albania server and I assume some others.

  • ki9@lemmy.gf4.pwEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It’s because your vpn exit node was blocked by RT. You share IPs with other mullvad customers. Could be becaue someome was hacking or just hitting a rate limit. Try again later or use another exit node.

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    Did you try a different VPN? Many websites block VPNs from viewing their website, this is more likely the issue.

    Edit: I have mullvad, RT works if you connect via Albania, I tried a few others and it didn’t work but there are probably other countries which work too

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I do not use Mullvad, however, I have had the same issue with sites, not rt(.com) in particular, but others. All I do is switch locales and usually the problem clears up. I haven’t figured out exactly why. A lot of VPN IPs have a tendency to be abused and so a certain website may have blacklisted your IP number of the VPN locale you were/are using. Could be some scenario such as this.

  • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
    23·
    20 hours ago

    Also, if you use Mullvad’s DNS servers, some level-1 DNS providers block Mullvad’s level-2 servers, which means you can’t even look up some sites. My solution was to use a web DNS lookup tool and add blocked resolves to my router’s dnsmasq table. It’s a shitty solution, but it works.