[GRLUG] dns hijacking

[Benjamin Flanders]

Well that confused me as well, and like I said this was a while ago,
but some of the tiles of the map seemed to resolve to something like
maps.google.<something>.opendns.com(this would be on the tile instead
of the image that was supposed to be there).  Like opendns couldn't
find whatever server was serving up that tile.  I would hit refresh
and sometimes this would help and sometimes I would get the opendns
hijack page saying something to the effect that it couldn't find
google.com and to "click here" to do something (reload dns cache?)
then it would find google.com.  Like I said that would happen a few
times a week.

Pointing the dns back to comcast fixed all the issues.

Maybe OpenDNS had nothing to do with it, but getting off of it worked.

Share and Enjoy
Ben



On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:44 PM, john-thomas richards<jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>> I've tried OpenDNS multiple times but it seems to have a lot of
>> issues.  A couple times a week it couldn't find google.com or more
>> often than that it had trouble finding about half of the Google maps
>> tiles  I would have to refresh about 3 times for all the map to show
>> up.  This was a while ago so maybe they have fixed things.
>
> I'm wading into things I really don't have the chops to discuss, but how
> would that be an OpenDNS problem?  Since you were able to load part of
> the map, you were able to get to maps.google.com.  (This may be a
> *really* dumb question, I admit.)
>
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