A screenshot of googleapis.com taken on Wednesday by Matt Bennett, MD of web host Brit-Net
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hundreds of thousands of sites were mislabeled as phishing sites on Wednesday after OpenDNS blocked googleapis.com, a developer resource site for scripts and apps, according to several reports.
Visitors to websites that used Google-hosted jQuery or MooTools saw either a “phishing site blocked” message or a 404 error, according to a report by the Register.
In a post on Geeky Scribbles, web host Brit-Net managing director Matt Bennett said an issue surrounding the SSL on googleapis may have caused the conflict. He offered directions to move over to Microsoft’s DNS with a fallback to googleapis.com. The outage apparently lasted around three hours.
OpenDNS forum member awebber said this is the first time he had found OpenDNS to be a problem.
“Never considered disabling OpenDNS until today. Especially worrying as our site uses Google CDN and if our users IT teams use OpenDNS our sites won’t work at all,” the post said.
OpenDNS, in the same forum thread, claims that it de-listed the domain on its servers and would investigate why it was listed in the first place. Daniel Gifford, support manager at OpenDNS, instructed users to clear their cache and flush their resolver.
In December 2011, OpenDNS announced the preview of its DNSCrypt, a new technology that improves both the security and privacy of Internet users in wifi hotspots.
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