How to stop a Belkin Router blocking webpages

Sometimes Belkin routers can wrongly blacklist webpages. If you can't get through to a webpage, but suspect the router is blocking it, log into the router using your browser of choice, and check the Security Log. If you see something like...

Nov.23.2008 17:34:43 security:752802.541 Blocked Prot=6, 65.54.153.254:80 > 36.168.14.24:3694, AS Seq=442762075, Ack=474151315 -Black List Defense

Then the chances are your router is blocking the page. Run an nslookup on the website that's being blocked - if the same IP address shows up in the security log, that's what's happening.

Fix:

telnet to the router (here it's 192.168.0.1, but more usually it'll be 192.168.2.1)

$ telnet 192.168.0.1
Trying 192.168.0.1...
Connected to 192.168.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.

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     v#####?    ,vvd##P?^        #?#v#vvv
   v#####?    v###P^    ,vvv,        '?#?,
  ######?   ####?^ ,vd#P?^     `???##
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 #####?   v####  ]##L                   /   / \  |\ |  |_  \/   /\   |\ |   |
 ######    ####  ]###L                  \_  \_/  | \|  |_  /\  /--\  | \|   |
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Login: admin
Password: ****************
Login successful
--> firewall set IDS blacklist disable   
--> 

And that's that. Unfortunately, if you reset the router (and with a Belkin router? You're going to reset it a lot) - then you'll need to do this again.