Comments on: OpenDNS – Secure, free, public DNS server

By: cyperrotte

cyperrotte — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:01:25 +0000

Nothing works for me. The DNS servers are not working for me or are out of date. They have worked before, but not anymore! Help?

By: opensat

opensat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:38:12 +0000

I had some DNS problems and using this post helped me to fix it. Thank you author, thank you OpenDNS

I recommend it

By: Kalme Ismael

Kalme Ismael — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:00:54 +0000

OpenDNS was good until the Yahoo buy up. After that, OpenDNS has become (oddly? not.) haphazard at best for googlites (homepage=google, gmail, gdocs, etc.), unless you want to sign up for the “free” OpenDNS services. Blocking? Via your DNS? Please, anyone with the most limited research ability can spend 5 mins in an internet search to learn how to bypass.
OpenDNS is intentionally interfering or blocking Google access. This is “why” the Yahoo redirect for failed searches. Go ahead, use your favoured search engine and look it up yourself. Oh, unless that’s Yahoo. =\

By: kyanh

kyanh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:54:44 +0000

I think that you can change this settings

By: Moyra J. Bligh

Moyra J. Bligh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:14:46 +0000

When it can’t find the dns for the domain it redirects you to an useless Yahoo! search page. I find this unacceptable and offensive. I do not want to be redirected anywhere if the site does not exist, too much potential for fraud. I just want the error message that a browser would normally give, I find that much more useful and informative.

Until and unless they change this insecure and offensive practice, I will *NEVER* use this service.

By: DarkReaper

DarkReaper — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:17:12 +0000

Guys…I have a prob with Using OpenDNS…see…when I change my DNS server addresses…and press ok,it says I have to Re-connect to apply the changes…but when I do Reconnect,the DNS server addresses go back to the ISP’s old ones………….HELP!!!!

By: kyanh

kyanh — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:30:33 +0000

Hello all,

I tried again. And now it worked. So all my LAN computers use OpenDNS. There are still some minor problems:

- OpenDNS is sometime down: when visiting some pages in Vietnam, I sometimes lost connection and will be redirected to OpenDNS search page. The following path seems too long:

my query (in Vietnam) => openDNS => response to Vietnam

- I tried to use script to update my Dynamic IP . This script is executed as daemon in Linux system. But the script seems doesn’t work:) I copied script somewhere in OpenDNS help page. Okay, the one of the best behavior of OpenDNS is that it allows me to update dynamic IP, and it helps me to track all local connections

If you experience this script, please show me the one

Thank you all of you!

By: ramon

ramon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:35:32 +0000

umm. even if you have the wrong DNS ip address, the ping should work for any valid ip address. DNS is for naming.

By: kyanh

kyanh — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:26:13 +0000

Let me try it again. Please wait for the result

Thank you very much! (Abhi, Syahid et al.)

By: Abhi

Abhi — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:49:42 +0000

Hasan: ) Good catch.

Kyanh: It seems you were using the incorrect IP in the DNS settings of your router, which, ostensibly doesn’t host a DNS server. 203.68.220.220… thats some server running in Taiwan (must220.must.edu.tw) which is alive as I check it right now but is configured not to respond to icmp (ping) echos.
So, in that configuration, if you would have typed the IP of any website in the web browser, it would most likely have opened the page.

By: hasan

hasan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:01:20 +0000

203.68.220.220
try:-
208.67.220.220
208.67.222.222

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By: Abhi

Abhi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:09:26 +0000

Kyanh: So, when u try to ping the openDNS ip.. it fails. hmm…

> when u set up ur router for opendns.. (and u cannot ping their servers thereafter)… at that time, can u ping your ISPs’ servers?
The reason I ask that is that DNS server entry modification has got nothing to do with IP connectivity… which, of course, is a prerequisite to configuring DNS in the first place.

> Can you repeat this scenario multiple times? or was this a one-off incident.

Frankly, if u try it again and it works, i’d say the problem you encountered earlier was transient issue… maybe ur dsl router didnt negociate a WAN IP via pppoe… and after you un-did the changes and saved… pppoe came back up.

By: kyanh

kyanh — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:25:43 +0000

Thank you

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:19:26 +0000

kyan: wow, your problem looks a bit advanced to me. i am just using OpenDNS for a single PC + updated because my router does not allow me to change its DNS settings. I recommend that you contact those OpenDNS experts directly. They offer free technical support too!