FYI: OpenDNS servers fail to resolve Google.

[ChromeFoundry]

For the last hour, OpenDNS servers fail to resolve www.google.com.

This is an OpenDNS issue in the event anyone else is having trouble accessing google.

[whistler162]

1. Accessible as of 8:22 pm Eastern time.

[RoyGBiv]

2. Are they messing with routing?

I just decided to check it after reading your post. I've been able to get to Google, but I have lag. Where did you read/hear it was an OpenDNS issue specifically?

Interesting results of a traceroute/ping. Hop 7 is where it leaves my ISP's network.

This path is odd:



Here are ping times/packet loss for that routing:



Just a few minutes later, it changed to this:



With this ping/packet loss:



I haven't noticed the google.navigation.opendns.com address there at the end before. Did they install a cache just for Google?

[ChromeFoundry]

3. This is the response I got from them:

"Fixed now, a serious bug in our Chicago datacenter. We're looking into how it happened and why monitoring didn't alert us."

Their change log did mention that they installed cache today, so I would assume that it was just for google search. Other google apps on different hosts seem to work fine.

[RoyGBiv]

4. Interesting ...

Thanks.

I do those traceroute/ping tests randomly, usually just to see what I can see. That first run was weird, the kind of thing I don't normally see unless I'm hitting some overseas server.

[madokie]

5. I quit using open dns

Last week I was trying out the new windows 7 RC and decided I don't really like it anymore than my XP so I reloaded my xp back on this machine and this time I forgot to set up open dns for a couple days. I'm rocking along not having any problems and then yesterday I remembered I forgot so I set open dns back up and shortly thereafter I started getting a Internet explorer can't open this page errors but when I would click on the refresh button that page would always load then. So I set my machine back to where I'm not using open dns anymore. Also I noticed that with open dns that if I hadn't gone to my home page, which is google, for a while that it would take a longer time to reload and since I switched back and quit using open dns it doesn't do that anymore. On my last install, prior to playing with win7 rc, I looked using several different anti-everythings looking for the cause of that very thing thinking I had to have had malware or a trojan or something causing that and now it looks like it was only because I was using open dns back then.

With this install I am using Panda's cloud antivirus and I really like it. It only uses a couple processes to do it's work for a total of 17,428k. I was using avast before and it had something like 4 or 5 processes going using a whole hell of a lot more resources.

[struggle4progress]

6. Thanks.