Sonicwall Blocked Sites? Access, Unblock Websites Blocked by Sonicwall Firewall

Apart from those cozy chairs in my college internet cafe, I also vouch for their efforts in installing commercial firewall on PC’s, and it has been seriously one of the issues that concern most students who don’t find classroom lectures interesting anymore.

The firewall: Sonicwall, is one of the commercially available firewall that blocks websites like Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Orkut and so on..Out of curiosity, and the leisure time given, I went for a in-depth Google search on Sonicwall firewall. This unlikable Sonicwall blocking software has been one of the most popular website blocker software used in colleges, universities, schools and also offices.

No doubt, that alone is one solid reason for our college to have Sonicwall installed on each and every computer. Accessing websites or bypassing custom filter hasn’t been any easy with Sonicwall. Although there are tons of unexplored possibilities for accessing websites, I’d like to share with you some of the ways that can be helpful in unblocking sonicwall blocked websites.

Translate Website to Access Sonicwall Blocked Sites

I was expecting the translation trick to bypass blocked websites as the admin configures sonicwall in such a way that whenever a user types in the exact website ‘keyword’ on his address bar, it displays the sonicwall website blocked message.

Reason for restriction: Administrative Custom List settings.
This site is blocked by GAT college.

You’d be amazed (if this is your first time) to know that translating websites does let you access sonicwall blocked website. It worked for me, so might as well work for you

Which translation service to use? I used Google translate (translate.google.com) for unblocking orkut, myspace and facebook. Though there was hardly any luck. But then I gave a shot at the Yahoo! babelfish service (babelfish.yahoo.com) and entered the url of the website. Whoa It worked! I was able to access the blocked webpage, and even Youtube is working fine!

Albeit there’s a slight problem – I wasn’t able to login to SSL sites. Doesn’t affect me as 90% of the blocked webpages were accessible now. So take that, Sonicwall!

Proxies for Sonicwall For Unblocking Sites?

The possibility of accessing and ways to block sites are endless. Admin can actually block all the websites, or just do keyword filtering using Sonicwall. Some might try to hack into the work system. I don’t know if that’s a solution I’d recommend if you are working from your office.

I admit, translating website wasn’t the first idea that flashed my mind. Actually the use of proxies are one of the common way to access most of the blocked sites. But not when Sonicwall is installed. It was easy to guess that those free glype proxies floating on the web didn’t work.

You can try out paid proxies, or get a paid software which delivers promising results. Also try out vpn clients. I cannot use VPN client softwares as guys over here use linux system, but if you are running Windows in your office, or schools, with Sonicwall installed, then try out the these free vpn clients which might just work!

Written by Sidharth on May 7th, 2010

Self-proclaimed geek, editor of blogote, who loves all things tech.