Offlate for last 2 weeks, i have been getting too many calls.. Ray, pls help us, net is not working etc etc. Sadly their ISPs are not helping them .. they just say, “everything is fine” maybe you have you a virus.
When i diagnoised this problem for many of them i noticed they are using the ISP’s DNS Servers. i would recommend you use these below mentioned DNS servers as PRIMARY and SECONDARY and then use the ISP’s DNS as alternates.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
So i would prefer you contact your IT guy to make the change. Opendns is a community supported platform and with fast updates and Error checking. i would prefer you use it for all your networking DNS queries. Using the above , have solved most of my clients problems.
it doesn’t work for me. im on qualitynet.
i get this web page: www.opendns.com/welcome/oops/
i am forced to use their proxy servers i guess. do they redirect any dns queries to their own servers? i can put any ip address in the dns settings and it would still work
no not really…
their redirect you to their servers only if the concerned site you are trying to browse doesnt work.
since you are getting their site. this means the net works
yes the internet is working for me but i wanted to use opendns features such as phishing protection etc….. i dont think i am able to do so in my situation
you will need a dedicated IP or some sort of way that opendns can recognise you
interesting topic, i might try it later, just to see how it works, but what about privacy, security, etc.. ?
Thanks for sharing.
opendns is quite a world-renowed dns setup. you can just search for it in google and see loads about it
I’ve been using OpenDNS for like ages man.. infact if you have a personal network you can totally control and personalize your DNS resolution and messages… Also, i have a feeling that the 3G network (HSDPA) accounts are restricted by disabling the DNS…!! how friggin lame !!
And by ages I mean 2004..hehe
Wow!!! …..Greek!
Happy birthday, Rayboy!
@flaming carrot:.. Dude, what all that means is..when you as for a website.. hotmail, facebook, rayboy.org, the internet does not know where to go, it jsut knows numbers and stuff.. so a DNS…kinda translates your request into numbers for the internet to understand..
See.. thats not greek!!..Never stop learning…
Stay tuned next week for BGP routers!!.. hehehe jst kding.
T : Ohhh .. i just found opendns like 6 months back … was searching for an online hosting company to do DNS redundancy .. but then came across this and it worked like a charm(not for the dns redundancy i had in mind)
FC : thanks