Comments on: Poison in the system http://knowit.co.nz/2007/05/poison-in-the-system Tech, Apple and WordPress Mon, 07 May 2012 23:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: E.T.Cook http://knowit.co.nz/2007/05/poison-in-the-system/comment-page-1#comment-193 E.T.Cook Tue, 15 May 2007 07:02:21 +0000 http://mactips.info/blog/?p=2110#comment-193 Anytime you have a problem with domain resolution, you can do one of two things... set the domain manually in your etc/hosts file...or, better yet, don't use the isp's dns servers, use http://www.opendns.com/. The beautiful thing about this is that you can actually request their dns servers to pull the ip again...so if you have recently updated your dns entries on your domain, if you request opendns to pull the new info, anyone using that service will have the updated information! The service is absolutely fantastic, and you can make the changes on the router level! Anytime you have a problem with domain resolution, you can do one of two things…

set the domain manually in your etc/hosts file…or, better yet, don’t use the isp’s dns servers, use http://www.opendns.com/.

The beautiful thing about this is that you can actually request their dns servers to pull the ip again…so if you have recently updated your dns entries on your domain, if you request opendns to pull the new info, anyone using that service will have the updated information!

The service is absolutely fantastic, and you can make the changes on the router level!

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