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RAX120 blocking one site
Firmware V1.2.9.52; no Armor or Parental Controls; currently use Fiber Optic, but problem existed with cable (using Netgear modem) My wife has never been able to access the https://grants.nih.gov...
Sorry, I was out of-pocket for a few days. I enabled the 'Use these DNS Servers" radio button and rotated all four between primary, secondary, and third servers...shutting down my mac, router, and the fiber optic box and then bringing everything back up. Neither wifi nor the ethernet connection through the router accessed the site. Before i changed the DNS addresses, i noticed all three were pre-populated with other DNS addresses so i wrote them down (136.228.96.73, 136.228.96.70, and 136.228.96.71), trying them with no luck too. Long story short...I changed the DNS Address option back to "Get Automatically from ISP" and in a fit of despair changed the Router Mac Address option from "Use Default Address" to "Use Computer MAC Address", applied the change and then rebooted everything and that fixed the problem.
Try a different DNS Server. Here's a few. Also remember to change the ipv6 dns server if ipv6 is enabled.
CloudFlare
IPv4: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1111 and 2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1001
GoogleDNS
IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
IPv6: 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888 and 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8844
Sorry, I was out of-pocket for a few days. I enabled the 'Use these DNS Servers" radio button and rotated all four between primary, secondary, and third servers...shutting down my mac, router, and the fiber optic box and then bringing everything back up. Neither wifi nor the ethernet connection through the router accessed the site. Before i changed the DNS addresses, i noticed all three were pre-populated with other DNS addresses so i wrote them down (136.228.96.73, 136.228.96.70, and 136.228.96.71), trying them with no luck too. Long story short...I changed the DNS Address option back to "Get Automatically from ISP" and in a fit of despair changed the Router Mac Address option from "Use Default Address" to "Use Computer MAC Address", applied the change and then rebooted everything and that fixed the problem.