Below are the DNS servers that I have been using for many years:
84.200.69.80 DNS Watch (Hostname: resolver1.ihgip.net ISP: Accelerated IT Services GmbH)
91.239.100.100 Uncensored DNS (IP: 130.225.244.166 Hostname: deic-lgb.anycast.censurfridns.dk ISP: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet)
85.214.20.141 Foebud (Hostname: h1768020.stratoserver.net ISP: Strato AG)
82.141.39.32 OpenNIC (DE) (Hostname: quaternary.server.edv-froehlich.de ISP: KAMP Netzwerkdienste GmbH)
82.196.9.45 OpenNIC (NL) (Hostname: none ISP: Digital Ocean)
I used to be able to access the website pressreader.com in the past until recently. About a month ago, if I typed www.pressreader.com directly into my browser, the website would be inaccessible. (Note: I have no problem accessing other websites at all.)
I now use one of the workarounds below:
Method #1
a. launch a search engine like Google or DuckDuckGo
b. type "pressreader climate change" (without quotes) or any phrase that includes pressreader as one of the words
c. from the list of the results of the search, click on any result that has the word Pressreader
Method #2
Use a VPN (free or paid service) to access Pressreader
Method #3
Change my existing DNS servers to either Google's, OpenDNS' or those provided by my ISP
8.8.8.8 Google
8.8.4.4 Google
208.67.222.222 OpenDNS
208.67.220.220 OpenDNS
Additional info:
I only read news on pressreader.com at home. My home computer is connected to the modem (provided by my ISP).
Am I right to believe that the DNS servers that I have been using all this while have been poisoned?
Per Moonsik Park's suggestion
I typed nslookup -query=any pressreader.com in a terminal/console and below are the results:
username@hostname:~$ nslookup -query=any pressreader.com
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: pressreader.com
Address: 107.154.111.111
Name: pressreader.com
Address: 107.154.103.111
pressreader.com nameserver = ns2.newspaperdirect.com.
pressreader.com nameserver = ns3.newspaperdirect.com.
pressreader.com
origin = ns2.newspaperdirect.com
mail addr = hostmaster1.newspaperdirect.com
serial = 1018
refresh = 900
retry = 600
expire = 86400
minimum = 3600
pressreader.com mail exchanger = 20 ndmail.newspaperdirect.com.
pressreader.com mail exchanger = 10 adab.pressreader.com.
pressreader.com text = "ZA=4CgDvbUCl3GAgI0vDd2dKw=="
pressreader.com text = "globalsign-domain-verification=EDgZxi7787wPfMQiYBv6Ozzb_TN1aizyNzGX4ivO98"
pressreader.com text = "_globalsign-domain-verification=wFqJgfjXebcCp5uT9zGMgShVZ2CoKeUUW-oyud5cO1"
pressreader.com text = "globalsign-domain-verification=3c-6TB-cG8LBvkfkOGKMCjIEzTjuPaL-U1mJ_PjnNe"
pressreader.com text = "MS=A8AD5E10FE533C17EDA5293095360D727A967AAA"
pressreader.com text = "cloudflare-verify 189356383-34794676"
pressreader.com text = "v=spf1 mx ip4:204.50.102.44 ip4:204.50.102.26 ip4:204.50.102.50 ip4:204.50.102.246 ip4:208.181.59.34 ip4:208.181.59.36 ip4:208.181.59.39 ip4:208.181.59.253 include:sendgrid.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:servers.mcsv.net -all"
pressreader.com text = "MS=ms36475603"
pressreader.com text = "globalsign-domain-verification=AtQ1zLCdH6JdJ_bs3f2aP9sBShOfzhFCCTJ8tfwk9j"
Authoritative answers can be found from:
adab.pressreader.com internet address = 207.34.140.7
Next, I accessed www.centralops.net/co and typed pressreader.com. The results provided the same details as those obtained by performing a local nslookup query.
Finally I typed 107.154.111.111 into my browser and clicked Go. Below is the response:
107.154.111.111 - Resolving failed
Error code 22
The proxy failed to resolve site from host name, if this site was recently added please allow a few minutes before trying again.
pressreader.com
(which you used fornslookup
) andwww.pressreader.com
are different hosts, with different addresses, although the former redirects (301) to the latter; and both/all of them are apparently run by Incapsula, as linked at the bottom of the page which you apparently ignored; Incapsula is a frontend/proxy that handles many sites from the same address(es) and thus must be accessed by name not address in order to know which site to serve to you (although the error message could be friendlier). ...