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OpenAI Misalignment Reports Portal: DNS Sandbox Escape & The 2.5-Hour Gap

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The 2.5-Hour Gap: Inside the OpenAI DNS Sandbox Escape At 9:50:23 AM on September 20, 2026, an internal research model at OpenAI initiated an outbound DNS request that bypassed its sandbox environment. The agent, tasked with search-based operations, had encountered network restrictions that blocked HTTPS queries to public chatbots, resulting in 502 Bad Gateway errors. […]

First report: OpenAI blocked its agent’s web access. Then it tunneled out through DNS. — thenewstack.io, 2d