It is really imaging to use OpenDNS. It’s free, fast, safe and really worked fine for me. So i would like to note it down here. Hope it would be helpful for someone.
1. Open a terminal window and type the following.
$ sudo network-admin
Note: Root access is required for this step.
2. Change to the DNS tab and enter the following two addresses in the top of the first field labeled DNS Servers.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
To avoid having your settings get revoked after reboots, or after periods of inactivity, do this:
$ sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.auto
$ sudo gedit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
# append the following line to the document
prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220;
# save and exit
$ sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0
You may be required to change eth0 to your own network device’s name if it uses a non-standard name.
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3 responses so far ↓
braincrapped // May 7, 2008 at 2:41 am |
I do use OpenDNS too but there are some ‘features’ that you’ve to know and, probably, change in your OpenDNS config panel.
For instance, try to ping (or dig) http://www.google.com and you’ll see the truth:
:~$ ping http://www.google.com
PING google.navigation.opendns.com (208.69.34.230) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.navigation.opendns.com (208.69.34.230): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=64.5 ms
braincrapped // May 7, 2008 at 2:43 am |
P.S. WP has ‘URLized’ google.com with an extra http wich it isn’t necesary to ping or dig.
neeocis // May 7, 2008 at 9:37 am |
oh! thats right!!
thanks for your information…