[MLUG] Videotron DNS Problems?

[patricia campbell]

I've been trying out opendns & have similar intermittant problems

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Chris O'Regan <chris.oregan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been using OpenDNS at some locations, but globally - I'm against
>> them... more precisely against the automatic rewrite of some urls.
>> They advertise it as security against phishing, but whatever the
>> purpose I'm against censorship.
>>
>> Couple of months ago, they also tried redirecting to google some query
>> (the l.google.com story), but it broke .ca request and created trouble
>> over some of those locations.
>>
>> With ICANN messing up with tld policy - I'm not sure I really want my
>> dns server to be thinking on their own and deciding which page to
>> serve me...
>
> In the short term, it is allowing me to get to Mozilla, but I am
> noticing that it is taking a very long time to resolve
> addons.mozilla.org. In the long term, I think I will set up a caching
> server on my router so that I can handle lookups myself.
>
>
> Chris
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