Is Your Website Blocked? Access These Ways

What if your website, that records a good number of visitors every single day, gets blocked?  You must be worried and put every effort to crack the hard nut of unblocking your site. Sometimes authorities do so due to certain technical reasons. But that reasons can never stop you from catching it. Here are certain tricks by which you can access your website easily:

1. Track IP rather than URL for access: Some software do block websites but only by name. What a chance you have! Your website’s IP is still active. You can track it and get the key to its access. This will be one of the best interactive ideas that can engage zillions of people through its access. Wondering, how to trace IP? You can have it from Terminal if you use OS X. Windows users can get it through Command Prompt. 

  Steps to track IP:

• Write ping yourdomain. Com.
• After it, tap on ENTER. 
• Here you have the IP address! Copy the result which is your IP
• Paste it on the browser’s address bar.
• Pressing ‘Enter’ your website will be open. 

2. Proxy Server to access: Apart from giving structure and encapsulation, proxy server has an astounding feature as well that should be the matter of interesting for the web development companies in India and abroad. These can grant your request of opening the blocked site and unbelievably, maintains the anonymity. But let it be cleared that this will not be your original website. The server actually gets connected to its resource or the actual destination of the website and giving you the glance of only cached version.

  How to access on proxy server:

• Go to the proxy server or sites like Proxysite or Newproxysite.
• Type the URL.
• Press ‘Enter’. 

3. Go for free or subscribed VPN Service: If you want to access privately, go through Virtual Private Network (VPN). It will not display your website’s actual identity. You can check out on internet for free, for instance Hola, while there are some who subscribe it. The chrome and Firefox users can check the extension of the browser at the address bar. 

4. Download TOR Browser: Tor browser gifts you anonymity with complete privacy. It doesn’t capture your browsed area and locations.

  How to use Tor:

• Download the’ Tor’ browser.
• Complete its installation. 
• Tap on this app and then, on ‘Connect’. 

5. Use Public DNS of ISPs: Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) disable access of the websites through DNS. Such technical barrier can be removed by using Google Public DNS. You can add on or use this Google’s DNS and get your website accessed.

  How to change DNS with Google Public DNS:

• Go to DNS configuration of your network.
• Feed the Google Public DNS.
• Use it either primary or secondary.

6. Google Translate can re-access the blocked: Google translate will be a surprised package for accessing the blocked websites. Yes, it’s possible! Catch how:

  Steps of accessing the blocked site via Google Translate:

• Paste the URL of the blocked site in address bar.
• Press the enter key.
• Click on view for keeping the original language as it is.

7. Manual setting of browser’s proxy: It will be quite complex but manageable. What all you need to have are public proxies in active mode. Hidemyass is the one site which can provide them to you.

  Steps to insert proxy manually:

• Find the one.
• Copy an IP address from there.
• The, Port. 

  In Firefox:

• Go to ‘Preference’ and then on ‘Advance’.
• Tap on ‘Settings’ under ‘Connection’.
• Click on ‘Manual Proxy Configuration’.
• Enter HTTP of the proxy copied.
• Then port and finally, click on ‘OK’.

  In Chrome:

• Use ‘Proxy Helper’.

8. Modify the host files for tracking IP of the blocked site: For doing so, Pentest tool can be very useful. It enables you to trace the IP for the blocked domain and subdomain.

  Steps of how to change the host file:

• Go to Pentest tool
• Trace the IP.
• Insert domain name.
• Click on ‘subdomain details’ check box.
• Tap on start tab.
• Copy the IP flashing on the screen along with domain/subdomain.

9. Unblock through SSH Tunnels: It will be useful only if you have an SSH account. Otherwise, you won’t be able to do so.

  Steps:

• Open the Terminal.
• Run this command: ssh –D 12345 user@host.domain.
• SOCKS server will start running on port 12345.
• Feed the username and password.
• You are logged in now.
• Minimize the terminal.
• Follow the settings: Preferences>Advanced>Network>Settings.
• Click on the radio button before ‘Manual Proxy Configurations’.
• Enter 127.0.0.1 on SOCKS Hosts.
• Put the Port Number.
• Tap on OK.
• Click on ‘Save’. 
• Go to blank tab.
• Type: ‘about:config’.
• Set ‘true’ for ‘network.proxy.socks_remote_dns’.