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07-Jun-2007, 07:18 PM #16
works fine for single PCs on my network, tnx! my linksys router, however, doesn't like it.

yet another issue, firefox' "i'm feeling lucky" feature doesn't work anymore, typing the keyword(s) into the address bar will divert to the 'openDNS guide', powered by yahoo! ... well, i suppose i can live with that :-)

update: this article explains the 'redirecting' and more ... quite interesting!
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07-Jun-2007, 08:55 PM #17
Quote:
Originally Posted by lotuseclat79
Article here.

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It's faster than the DNS service that my ISP uses, by at least twice.
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29-Jun-2007, 10:28 AM #18
I'm going to add a small caution on using OpenDNS here!

I had OpenDNS configured on this machine, and I hadn't noticed any ill effects, so I just never got around to changing it back to my default. That all changed today!

I have a machine named BOBBI on my network, so I tried to connect to it with UltraVNC, and I couldn't access it??? I found that curious, so I pinged it. Imagine my surprise when the PING came back with a 208.x.x.x address instead of the 192.168.x.x address that I expected! I quickly ran over to the machine, and it had the correct IP address, and I could indeed ping and connect using the IP address. I did a WHOIS on the IP address that BOBBI resolved to, and it pointed to OpenDNS.

I promptly went into my network properties and changed my DNS back pointing at the router's base address, and the world promptly righted itself and everything worked as it should.

Be careful out there!
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30-Jun-2007, 09:07 AM #19
I changed my DNS to open DNS and it help page loads some.
But type in a address in the address bar and if it can not find it you get taken to there site.
Like I did www.comcast3.net and your go here.
http://guide.opendns.com/?url=www.comcast3.net

On a ping it I get this here and the IP is opendns
Pinging www.comcast3.net [208.67.219.130]

On a trace your get the same IP.
I cut out most of this but it shows the start and the ending IP.

Target Name: www.comcast3.net
IP: 208.67.219.130

nxdomain.guide.opendns.com [208.67.219.130]

Ping statistics for www.comcast3.net
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0.0%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 19ms


So if you think you pinging a place you better be sure it is going there by checking the IP address.

Funny I found out comcast has another address at http://www.comcast1.net/ that is part of google but I can't get no where because I Blocked: pagead2.googlesyndication.com in my hosts file.
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30-Jun-2007, 03:47 PM #20
There's no way a local network name should have resolved to an Internet location, so I have to chalk that one up to a bug in OpenDNS.
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01-Jul-2007, 04:26 AM #21
With your ISP if a link was bad or deal your get one of these errors here.
http://guide.opendns.com/error_page_examples

But with DNS you get a page like this when it can not find what your looking for.
http://guide.opendns.com/

Why?
Because they can make money.

How does OpenDNS make money?
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02-Jul-2007, 04:01 PM #22
I like it. Not a significant impact. Definitely a case-by-case thing.
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