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). Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 When only cops have guns, it's called a police state. -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution"