Mullvad blocks a certain website
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.
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@Dr_Vindaloo Mullvad did not. The website blocked Mullvad.
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.
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.
I assume he's talking about the DNS resolver within the app. Mullvad has a couple options: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
It works just fine for me btw, even when blocking ads and trackers
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.