Website imgur.com not working correctly

Networking DNS
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Hi all, I am having a strange issue with imgur.com. I know that imgur.com is not available in the U.K. for reasons, however, I am NOT in the U.K., I am in South Africa. Yet I can access the site, however, when I try to sign in, I get the message “CONTENT NOT AVAILABLE” and below it “Content not available in your region”.

So, is it possible my DNS servers could have something to do with this? I am using the DNS Servers recommended by IPFire:

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Or could it be that my ISP is somehow either blocking it or is being blocked by imgur.com?

Other people in South Africa report no issues with imgur.com at all from their side, hence my confusion and asking here.

Thanking you.

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You can check how different databases see your IP address:

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo

https://whoer.net/

If most or all of these sites show the UK instead of South Africa, the problem may be with geolocation databases that use incorrect data for your IP block.

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@tphz thank you for your reply. Regrettably, all four show correctly as South Africa so that does not seem to be the issue.

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Well, I seem to have found the root of my issue:

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So my question NOW is, where do those two DNS severs come from (they are NOT in my list of DNS servers, obviously) and by extension, how do I get rid of them?

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Change to DNS over TLS if your not using it.

and block other requests aa in the wiki.

Have you checked the logs for IPS?

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Looks like you showed your IP address. :face_with_peeking_eye:

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@hvacguy as per my first image, I am using DNS over TLS.

And I am forcing clients to block other requests as per the wiki.

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Based on your DNS settings which look OK and also the output from your DNS leak test I suspect you have an app or a service running that is bypassing your rules that force all DNS traffic to go via IPF.

Sorry can’t be more specific than that but that’s where I would be looking next.

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@rjschilt thank you for your reply. As far as I am aware there is nothing on my Windows PC that would be bypassing my DNS rules. I have emailed my ISP, as I really am beyond stumped now. My ISP can be the ONLY other source of the problem.

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@markadewet do you have an alternate ISP you could run a test on?

Otherwise… I’m sure you’ll get to the bottom of it and do let is know the how/why/who once you find out.

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@rjschilt thank you for your reply. Regrettably, no I do not have an alternative ISP. There is unfortunately no such option in South Africa.

I certainly will post here once I find the reason for this issue.

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I was just thinking . the results may be wrong.!

the DNS fire wall rule is a silent redirect MIT attack on ones self.

So this test would give you false results.

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@hvacguy apologies for sounding dumb, but WHAT test?

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DNS leak test.

or would need to disable your firewall rule.

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My guess is the DNS leak tool uses them.

So nothing to worry about. your DNS redirect is lying to the DNS tool.

So long as you get a response your DNS should be working.

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@hvacguy Two of your comments seem to imply that the test I ran is lying to me. Firstly, what would give you that idea and secondly if the test IS lying to me, then what good is it and how would one then ACTUALLY identify which DNS servers one is actually using??

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perhaps run your DNS tool and check the connection in ipfire.

It should be using the ones you have defined in ipfire

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@hvacguy If I understand your comment, correctly, the DNS test website IS using the DNS servers I defined in IPFire.

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@markadewet I’m curious when you observe traffic on the IPF Connections panel do you by chance see any DNS Traffic at all (TCP/UDP and/or ports 53/853) ?