{"id":725,"date":"2008-02-27T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/27\/when-opendns-is-unreachable"},"modified":"2008-02-27T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:56:10","slug":"when-opendns-is-unreachable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/27\/when-opendns-is-unreachable","title":{"rendered":"When OpenDNS is unreachable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beware, whom you trust your DNS to. I have particularly enjoyed using OpenDNS, mainly because I travel a lot, and encounter a lot of broken DNS configurations. However, when OpenDNS goes wonky, it makes you really wonder if running local DNS makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p><tt>[-(byte@hermione)-(pts\/1)-(11:57pm:27\/02\/2008)-]<br \/>\n[-(~)&gt; ping www.google.com<br \/>\nPING google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.219.231) 56(84) bytes of data.<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt>--- google.navigation.opendns.com ping statistics ---<br \/>\n7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6000ms<br \/>\n<\/tt><br \/>\nClearly, not good? Quick edit of <tt>\/etc\/resolv.conf<\/tt>, and I&#8217;m quite happy to use local DNS. Oops, it seems like OpenDNS is clearly down now (can&#8217;t even reach opendns.com). Ironically, only from my Unwired Internet account.<\/p>\n<p>The difference in traceroute output (for status.opendns.com):<br \/>\n<tt>12  38.104.140.46 (38.104.140.46)  261.618 ms  267.483 ms  268.207 ms<br \/>\n13  208.67.219.60 (208.67.219.60)  220.762 ms  220.735 ms  220.709 ms<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>From hop 12, to hop 13, it is unreachable. Let&#8217;s hope this temporary problem, disappears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Its back online, 1.45am.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/opendns\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">opendns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/google\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/resolv.conf\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">resolv.conf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/unwired\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">unwired<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20When%20OpenDNS%20is%20unreachable&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F27%2Fwhen-opendns-is-unreachable&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I have particularly enjoyed using OpenDNS, mainly because I travel a lot, and encounter a lot of broken DNS configurations. However, when OpenDNS goes wonky, it makes you really wonder if running local DNS makes more sense. [-(byte@hermione)-(pts\/1)-(11:57pm:27\/02\/2008)-] [-(~)&gt; ping www.google.com PING google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.219.231) 56(84) bytes of data. 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