How to get access to blocked domains from a vps? (Monero mining pool URL)

Question

Mining pools supportxmr.com and minexmr.com are blocked by providers like vultr.com

miner@vultr_vps:~# ping pool.minexmr.com
ping: unknown host pool.minexmr.com

Hard coding IP addresses isn't possible, because multiple mining servers are setup with a round robin DNS behind the domain.

Any idea how I can access the pool anyway?

Answer 1

I solved this same issue today on Vultr. It's just a matter of not using their DNS servers (the example below uses the free DNS service offered by Google).

On Ubuntu 18.04 all you gotta do is open your DNS config for editing:

sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

Then delete the entire contents of the file, and replace with:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Cheers :)

Answer 2

I created a subdomain and setted up CNAME to pool.minexmr.com.

PING pool.minexmr.com (78.46.91.134) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from static.134.91.46.78.clients.your-server.de (78.46.91.134): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=5.48 ms

It looks like everything is going to work well. The minexmr.com dashboard shows that the miner works correctly.