{"id":357,"date":"2010-06-16T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrioticfederalist.com\/Wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2017-11-19T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T21:25:48","slug":"kgr-or-other-sites-not-showing-up-or-showing-imtermitantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Federalist (or other sites) not showing up. Cox DNS hijacking!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed my site and some others did not show up at certain times or I would randomly get redirected to\u00a0 http:\/\/finder.cox.net.\u00a0 I would not be able to log in for hours sometimes then it would just come back.\u00a0 At first I thought my new domain just sucked. Then I figured out I could connect to it through most any proxy server\u00a0 (http:\/\/anonymouse.org etc)<\/a> which narrowed it down some for me.\u00a0 Long story short, it was the DNS (Domain Name Server for the non geeks).\u00a0 It was being hijacked by Cox Cable.\u00a0 Finder.cox.net shouldn’t be showing up if a site doesn’t exist or has issues. You should see something like this:
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Instead I see http:\/\/finder.cox.net showing me a bunch of basically useless links.\u00a0 The links go through a Yahoo marketing site.\u00a0 So, my DNS\u00a0 has been hijacked AND forces me through useless links that make money for Cox.\u00a0 It also makes my web surfing intermittent at best. Did I mention its all for their marketing and profit?\u00a0 I am not happy about this.\u00a0 I am sure emailing them will do nothing so I just bypass their scheme.<\/p>\n

Not sure how to do this?\u00a0 There are several ways.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, there are way more than I will list here.<\/p>\n

If you have a router, set your DNS manually to use DNS addresses from OpenDNS, Google, or here are Cox.net’s alternate addresses as set in my router\u00a0 (default one for cox were same except last 2 digits were 12):<\/p>\n

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I don’t actually use that as I prefer to use OpenDNS\u00a0 http:\/\/www.opendns.com\/<\/p>\n

I have also successfully tested Google<\/a> public DNS servers using these setting in my router rather than having to change each computer:<\/p>\n

Primary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8.8.8.8
\nSecondary\u00a0\u00a0 8.8.4.4<\/p>\n

If you only want to fix one computer or don’t use a router try this method using the numbers mentioned above:<\/p>\n

To use Cox alternate DNS servers (click picture if you don’t know how to get to this screen…thanks to Nate):<\/p>\n

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I noticed my site and some others did not show up at certain times or I would randomly get redirected to\u00a0 http:\/\/finder.cox.net.\u00a0 I would not be able to log in for hours sometimes then it would just come back.\u00a0 At first I thought my new domain just sucked. Then I figured out I could connect … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,1],"tags":[131,130,132,123,122],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","category-general","tag-cox-hijacking","tag-coxs-404-hijacking","tag-dns-hijacking","tag-web-site-show-imtermitantly","tag-website-not-showing-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}