[CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

[Rob Townley]

why not use the dig command to query your isp dns system to see if
they forward requests to opendns.  By the way, OpenDNS is a great way
to help prevent phishing attacks.

Lastly, you should use this opp to create a opendns signon, this will
give you control over your dns request options.  You could block any
domain via dns quikly.

On 7/8/08, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/8/08, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
>> >I believe this is completely OT, but I want to be positive. I have a
>> > fully
>> >up to date CentOS 5.2 box. During the past week, when surfing with
>> > Firefox
>> >(and today, while testing with Konqueror), frequently, especially when
>> > DNS
>> >is slow,  I am seeing references to opendns.com  At times, I end up on
>> >opendns.com web pages, instead of at the web site I'm trying to get
>> to.  My
>> >ISP, the phone company, claims this is not coming from their end and that
>> >they are not using opendns.com. I was told they have two (2) DNS servers.
>> I
>> >haven't changed anything in my IPCop Firewall/Router box and my belief is
>> >that this is coming from my ISP or upstream from there. . If using
>> >opendns.com  is something new in CentOS 5.2, please let me know. TIA.
>>
>> I would suggest that you set up your own caching dns server, and don't
>> depend on your ISP's.
>
>
> We use dnscache from djbdns, avoiding BIND (Buggy Internet Name Daemon).
>
>
> Interesting idea! I will read the IPCop documentation, to see if I can do
> that on my IPCop box.
> If not, I'm interested in SME Server, if that will do the job. What I don't
> like about SME Server is that their documentation isn't available for
> download. I like to have local documentation on my hard drive. My strong
> belief is that this is coming from my ISP, but they claim I'm the only one
> with this problem. I can't imagine that it would be coming from the OS and
> nothing has changed in my IPCop box. ISP's like to claim that  problems
> are on the users end, rather than on their end. Once or twice, I've pointed
> out a problem to a previous ISP, been told there was no problem, and then
> later, they tell me that yes, they had a problem.... The phone company is
> the best ISP I have had, so far, and they seem to be "pro active" and
> usually they fix problems, without me calling them, which I truly appreciate
> and respect.
>