Internet woes fixed – thank you OpenDNS!

by James on 20th June, 2008 in General chit-chat

Argh. For a couple of days now I’ve been unable to connect to Psyked from my home internet connection, for some inexplicable reason. I won’t claim to understand any of it, but it seemed like the whole internet worked except my domain. I could even ping other websites on the same shared server, and access Psyked through a horribly slow open proxy server, but direct connection was a no-no.

Well, a bit of Googling into traceroutes, pings, hostnames and general techie mumbo-jumbo led me to reconfigure my home networks’ DNS servers away from Virgin broadband and onto OpenDNS. Restart the router and boom! we’re back online.

There’s a lot written about a lot of things (namely problems with Virgin broadband, and some contention over the OpenDNS project). Here’s a few links I picked up, if you’re interested;

OpenDNS main website
Techcrunch on OpenDNS (cagey about OpenDNS)
Matt Mullenweg on OpenDNS (for OpenDNS)

DNS, OpenDNS, Virgin broadband

About James

James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies.Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress.Follow James on Twitter.