This is guide on how to get websites working again

 

First go to: www.opendns.com

 

Now just do as the pictures tell you (the arrows point to what you need to click on)

 

 

If you have any questions, or its not working for you, make a tip.it account and ask me about it on this post.

Why would we want to use a different DNS? I'm fine with my ISP's DNS servers.

 

Also, your title is misleading. To flush the DNS, you go into an elevated command pompt, and you enter the command "flushdns" without the quotation marks.

Edited August 6, 201213 yr by Sbrideau

Why would we want to use a different DNS? I'm fine with my ISP's DNS servers.

 

Also, your title is misleading. To flush the DNS, you go into an elevated command pompt, and you enter the command "flushdns" without the quotation marks.

 

Well, some ISPs have odd configuration issues with their DNS servers which can only be avoided by switching to a different provider, like from my previous experience AT&T's DNS servers have the times for them holding entries being excessively long (As in it will take upwards of 24 hours for it to register a change in IP address for the site), or Time Warner redirects requests to nonexistant addresses to a bing search, or another DNS provider I have used would occasionally get corrupted entries preventing the use of their servers for looking up specific webpages.

Sbrideau, wyvren2000 said exactly what I was going to say. I heard a lot of people were having an issue connecting to a website that just changed. This has helped fixed many peoples issues, and I made this guide for noobs who couldn't do it there self :)

I haven't used OpenDNS before, but Google's has worked pretty well

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Google's are easier to remember so when I need to test with one that isn't my ISP's (which are easy to remember since I work on them occassionally :) ) I just use them.

 

 

Why would we want to use a different DNS? I'm fine with my ISP's DNS servers.

 

Also, your title is misleading. To flush the DNS, you go into an elevated command pompt, and you enter the command "flushdns" without the quotation marks.

 

Well, some ISPs have odd configuration issues with their DNS servers which can only be avoided by switching to a different provider, like from my previous experience AT&T's DNS servers have the times for them holding entries being excessively long (As in it will take upwards of 24 hours for it to register a change in IP address for the site), or Time Warner redirects requests to nonexistant addresses to a bing search, or another DNS provider I have used would occasionally get corrupted entries preventing the use of their servers for looking up specific webpages.

 

I don't think 24 hours is an excessively long time for DNS, it is actually pretty standard. The redirect to their own search is the main reason I didn't use my ISP's DNS when I was on Cincinnati Bell, and why I don't like OpenDNS either.

Ah, I see, I had never heard of issues with DNS before (other than the issues on the computer itself). Guess there is a first with everything.

Or just go into command prompt and type ipconfig/flushdns..

Fire R_A_G_E , That worked for a small amount of people with the issue we were having. This guide fixed it for a larger mount of people. :]

You also don't need to signup to OpenDNS at all to use it making most of your steps unnecessary, you just simply need to configure your OS/Router to use their IP addresses.

 

Also you can use Google Public DNS or Level3 DNS both of which have easier to remember IP addresses.

The only reason you need to sign up is to see the steps.

Although it would be helpful to post a link to at least Google's config instructions; I just did that and I think it fixed my problem with my slow internet connection. Or it at least made me think it's faster now. Tbh before I saw this topic I had no idea about this but it's really helpful.

The only reason you need to sign up is to see the steps.

 

Please read the PM I sent you also.