Ways to Bypass Torrent Connection Blocking and Throttling By Norton ConnectSafe

spam17

I'm lately encountering the problem described in the topic's name..

Do you have any ideas how can I cope with it?

::)

Pawpcorn

Hmmm have a look here:

https://dns.norton.com/faq.html#filtering_policies

Kind of looks like it's "all or nothing" without ways to tweak it, beyond this: (from the FAQ)

Which content filtering policies are available for home and personal use?

The following three pre-defined content filtering policies are available for home and personal use:

Policy 1: Security (199.85.126.10 and 199.85.127.10) This policy blocks all sites hosting malware, phishing sites, and scam sites. To use Policy 1, you should configure the DNS settings of your home router or Web-enabled device to use the following Norton ConnectSafe IP addresses: 199.85.126.10 and 199.85.127.10.

Policy 2: Security + Pornography (199.85.126.20 and 199.85.127.20) In addition to blocking unsafe sites, this policy also blocks access to sites that contain sexually explicit material. To use Policy 2, you should configure the DNS settings of your home router or Web-enabled device to use the following Norton ConnectSafe IP addresses: 199.85.126.20 and 199.85.127.20.

Policy 3: Security + Pornography + Other (199.85.126.30 and 199.85.127.30) In addition to blocking unsafe sites and pornography sites, this policy also blocks access to sites that feature mature content, abortion, alcohol, crime, cults, drugs, gambling, hate, sexual orientation, suicide, tobacco or violence. To use Policy 3, you should configure the DNS settings of your home router or Web-enabled device to use the following Norton ConnectSafe IP addresses: 199.85.126.30 and 199.85.127.30.

cannonmc

Blimey, I could cancel my connection if I used that :crazy2:

spam17

The wi-fi hotstop's server I used seems to be using Norton's software..

:cry2:

Popper

You could try to use in your connection setting another DNS for example Google's DNS or OpenDNS:

For Google it is 8.8.8**.8** and 8.8.4.4 if I remember right, sorry don't remember OpenDNS's IP.

Edit: corrected IPs as per MrMazda

MrMazda

Google DNS: 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4

Open DNS: 208.67.222.222 / 208.67.220.220

Dyn DNS: 216.146.35.35 / 216.146.36.36

DNS.Watch: 84.200.69.80 / 84.200.70.40

Commando Secure DNS: 8.26.56.26 / 8.20.247.20

I hope this list is helpful… Also... For some users, I may be able to offer DNS services with the current system that I run and host. If you're interested, please let me know.

Also... I forgot to mention... There are two other options that you can use to get around that.

Option #1 (recommended): Use of a VPN server. This will tunnel absolutely all of your internet traffic, including DNS requests and such through a secure tunnel to a remote location. This also masks your real IP address as well as the nature of what you are doing.

Option #2: Use of a proxy server