Blogger.com login is STILL blocked!

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threehappypenguins

February 10, 2014 21:54

I am having a problem. I have blocked ALL search engines and whitelisted Bing to force all users on the network to use only Bing as a search engine.

With that issue, of course, comes Google. Google is a beast. Youtube is Google, Android is Google, Blogspot/Blogger is Google, etc. So I've had to whitelist a whole lot of websites and services.

I whitelisted blogspot.com, blogger.com, l.google.com, accounts.google.com, googleusercontent.com and though I can access blogger.com, it blocks me signing in. There is something happening in the process. I found all the previous websites through typing various things into command prompt. For example, when typing accounts.blogger.com, it shows Name: blogger.l.google.com. I made sure l.google.com was whitelisted (which it already was). I also tried accounts.blogspot.com and it showed Name: blogspot.l.googleusercontent.com. So I whitelisted googleusercontent.com. Neither of them showed a different alias.

I still can't log in. If I shut off the OpenDNS, log in, and then go to the website while logged in, it works. So something is happening for the authentication process and it's getting blocked.

Is anyone good with nslookup and can figure this out?

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  rotblitz February 11, 2014 13:55

  One source to find out related blocked domains are your stats: https://dashboard.opendns.com/stats/all/blockeddomains

  Another easier way may be to see your DNS queries in real-time when you surf: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dns_query_sniffer.html

  nslookup can only help to find out aliases in this context.  But you don't need to whitelist aliases in every case.

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  Alexander Harrison February 11, 2014 17:06

  Hello,

  As you've stated in your question, Google relies on many domains which are used across all of its services. The best place to check to see which Google domains may be blocking your ability to log in to Google (note, google sign in is universal across all Google services), please check your logs at https://dashboard.opendns.com/stats/all/blockeddomains for possibly pertinent domains to block. Blocking all of Google but allowing logins to specific services is very challenging given Google's cross-site integration. 

  If you are a business user, please note that Enterprise accounts grant you the ability to bypass block page, thereby allowing certain departments to access Blogger as necessary. 

  If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to respond to this message.

  Best regards,

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