I'm unable to connect to nytimes.com as of now with these WiFi networks in my college: secure, secure High-speed(5-GHz) and Eduroam recently (All are one time Sign-on and show lock icon in WiFi list). I could do that last week and I have not changed anything in network settings.
The error is standard offline error in Safari “You’re not connected to Internet” and sometimes “Server unexpectedly dropped the connection”. However I'm able to access a lot of other websites at the same time. I have tried this and got the same condition in multiple buildings.
On network say "X" (doesn't show lock icon in WiFi but requires authentication), I can visit the website after logging into Fortinet popup.
After switching back to the aforementioned networks and typing the IP address instead of textual URL, I got an error which said something like unrecognised domain. and some cache info.
What can the reasons behind this and what can I do to solve this?
Edit: The said WiFi "X" is also an college network.
Best Answer
It's a fairly common practice for schools and universities to block sites that they deem inappropriate. For example here's a snippet from Azusa Pacific University's Internet Filtering policy:
So your blocking is likely being done by your College.
If you're still unsure you can also use an online service such as downforeveryoneorjustme to also confirm if the website you're trying to access is actually down or if it's just your college that's blocking it.
Eduroam
Based on one of your updates to your question I was able to find some additional information regarding Eduroam. Here's an excerpt from their FAQ.
And also from their legal disclaimer:
Methods to further test
To investigate your supposed filtering you can attempt to look up the IP address of the website's domain and then use
ping
andcurl
to verify if you're being filtered at a particular point or if you're having a legitimate technical difficulty.For example, using the command
host
to look up the IP:And you could also use
ping
to see if you're able to ping the IP addresses and/or hostname of the domain you're attempting to view.Lastly you can use
curl
to see if you have physical access to the website's ports 80 and 443 which are where web content is typically served.NOTE: Use Ctrl+C to stop the
curl
command. If you seeConnected ...
then you know you at least have physical access to the server's port 443.