[GRLUG] OpenDNS

[Benjamin Flanders]

Hi guys,
I switched to the openDNS servers this weekend because Comcast was
flaking again and I now have a print screen of the weird Google maps
issues I wrote about last week.

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3646/snapshot1sl0.png

Notice that the status bar says "Waiting for guide.opendns.com..."
OpenDNS seems to time out very fast, and if it can't resolve the
address it goes to guide.opendns.com which is a Google like page with
a list of possible sites I might want instead.  Invariably, the site I
am looking for (Google, netvibes etc) is on the top of the list and if
I click that link I go back to the same guide page.  Sometimes If I
click on it a bunch of times the site will load, most of the time I
have to go through OpenDNS's  "CacheCheck" page and the site will work
after this.

Back to the Google Maps.  I think OpenDNS times out on some of those
little squares of map and directs them to "guide.opendns.com".

This has happened every time I try OpenDNS for the last 9 months.  It
happens on different OS's WindowsXP, Kubuntu 7.04 and 7.10(After a
clean install), yet I can find no complaints online about it.

I just thought about disabling typo correcting after loggin in, I'm
going to try this.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this.
Any ideas on why this happens only to me?

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Share and Enjoy
Ben