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Domain blocking: maps.live.com is now blocked!

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    Hi,

    We're using Autoroute on a few PCs. There's a nice feature in Autoroute that allows you to see a birds-eye view of the map. It used to open a browser to maps.live.com but now that gets forwarded to bing.com which is blocked by our opendns setting due to the visual search engine. Anyone know of a work around? I don't want to unblock bing.com.

    Thanks
    Steve
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    My questions is, if you don't want to unblock bing.com, why was live.com allowed to be unblocked?
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2009
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    Great & simple solution: Do not block, what you need access to. :cool:

    What you are trying to achieve is to circumvent an intentional blocking. How can this ever work??? :confused: :tongue: :angry: :devil:

    "Anyone know of a work around?"
    Not really, and not with OpenDNS, as maps is under the bing.com domain...
    Or maybe don't use this maps, but another...
    • CommentAuthorjshier
    • CommentTimeJun 25th 2009
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    Don't know if it's possible, but whitelist bing.com/maps perhaps?
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    No, that is no a domain.
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    I'm not really sure if maps.live.com was blocked or not, since we are fairly new to OpenDNS, and the change to bing.com happened not long after we went live.
    If there was a way to make Autoroute use a different map server, I'd do that, but I don't think there is, unless anyone knows different.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJun 25th 2009 edited
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    You may raise a support request to bing.com to ask this question, i.e. if maps can be reached by calling a different domain or just the IP address.

    Edit: I did some DNS lookups, and, as so often, MS use content providers:
    nslookup www.bing.com.
    Name: a134.g.akamai.net
    Addresses: 213.155.157.67, 213.155.157.58
    Aliases: www.bing.com, search.ms.com.edgesuite.net

    nslookup maps.live.com.
    Name: a1234.g.akamai.net
    Addresses: 213.155.157.80, 213.155.157.48
    Aliases: maps.live.com, production.maps.live.com.akadns.net
    prodsplit.maps.live.com.akadns.net
    • CommentAuthorneindanke
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2009
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    From what I read all explicit content is now served from explicit.bing.net so you can possibly unblock bing.com now.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/15/bing_smut_cleared/
    Thankful People: rotblitz
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2009
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    Already tagged by St.Bernard as "Adult Themes".
    http://domain.opendns.com/explicit.bing.com

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