I am using opendns/linux firefox or konqueror and recently I cannot reach www.google.com. If I enter a search query in the firefox search box I bet the following:

window.google={kEI:"p_MgSOOPKZqYoQSflbm2CQ",kEXPI:"17259,17735,18156,18168",kHL:"en"}; window.rwt=function(b,d,e,g,h,f,i){var a=encodeURIComponent||escape,c=b.href.split("#");b.href="/url?sa=t"+(d?"&oi="+a(d):"")+(e?"&cad="+a(e):"")+"&ct="+a(g)+"&cd="+a(h)+"&url="+a(c[0]).replace(/\+/g,"%2B")+"&ei=p_MgSOOPKZqYoQSflbm2CQ"+(f?"&usg="+f:"")+i+(c[1]?"#"+c[1]:"");b.onmousedown="";return true}; window.gbar={};(function(){var c=window.gbar,e,g,h;c.qs=function(a){var d=window.encodeURIComponent&&(document.forms[0].q||"").value;if(d)a.href=a.href.replace(/([?&])q=[^&]*|$/,function(f,b){return(b||"&")+"q="+encodeURIComponent(d)})};function l(a,d,f){a.display=h?"none":"block";a.left=d+"px";a.top=f+"px"}c.tg=function(a){var d=0,f=0,b,m=0,n,j=window.navExtra,k,i=document;g=g||i.getElementById("gbar").getElementsByTagName("span");(a||window.event).cancelBubble=!m;if(!e){e=i.createElement(Array.every||window.createPopup?"iframe":"DIV");e.frameBorder="0";e.scrolling="no";e.src="#";g[7].parentNode.appendChild(e).id="gbi";if(j&&g[7])


What is up?

We are having the same issue with workstations at several of our locations that use openDNS....been going on for the last couple hours.

Same problem here. If I revert to my provider's DNS, everything works fine.

I can't reach google either. If I ssh into another machine that doesn't use opendns, I can ping google just fine. When I ping from my local machine (using opendns) here's what happens:
$ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (208.67.217.231) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=30.2 ms
64 bytes from google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=29.7 ms
64 bytes from google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=29.8 ms

This is definitely an opendns issue. And it makes me grouchy.

For those who are having a problem, I suggest opening a support ticket by using Contact in the Support area at bottom of this page. Good luck.

We're looking into this guys...

I had the same problem in Konqueror, Firefox and even Lynx.

What is google.navigation.opendns.com and why does pinging www.google.com result in pings being sent there?

This discussion raises some interesting questions:
http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=226&page=2

As a temporary workaround I've stuck
64.233.167.99 www.google.com www.google.co.uk
...into my hosts file.

But I'd still like to know what the purpose of google.navigation.opendns.com is?

@Silverblade:
I disabled shortcuts because of your post. I can now access everything (accept Reader through a bookmark, but the link works)

Thanks!

FWIW I'm on Kubuntu and I have another PC which runs Windows. Worked fine on Windows, but not on Kubuntu.

img0.gmodules.com also has this problem.

from our end this problem appears to have started yesterday (around 24 hours ago). we found we had to constantly refresh google after performing searches. today, of course, it's significantly worse with pages only partially coming up when using opendns to resolve google.com and the related country specific versions.

Also have this problem - Don't think OS/Browser matters, but Ubuntu 8.04 and FF3b5.


Apparently, Google and Dell were (are?) redirecting Dell users to a custom search page that was plastered with ads and such. Since it isn't entirely user friendly to have to scroll down just for those users to view search results, OpenDNS redirects all users to a OpenDNS proxy of Google (from what I understand) so that Dell users don't have to view all the ads. However, from what it appears, Apache on that redirection server has failed, and all of us are sitting here without our Google.

http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/


Having to enter Google's IP address to search isn't exactly fun, especially when I've got a search box in Firefox, only it doesn't work =/

I get regular google.com here.
nslookup www.google.com shows:

DNS server: resolver1.opendns.com 208.67.222.222
Answer addresses: Normal google addresses, such as 74.125.19.99

I don't see anything related to google.navigation.opendns.com

I am having this problem also. I first started seeing problems with this last night, and it seems to have gotten worse today.

Same problem here, but it can be fixed:

Dashboard > SETTINGS (tab) > Network Shourtcuts (left side)
- Uncheck "Enable OpenDNS proxy"
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For Ubuntu (Linux),
- Open up a console
- $ sudo /etc/init.d/network restart

It should now work.
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For Windows,
I think you might just need to "repair" the network, otherwise, type the following at the command prompt:
C:\>ipconfig /flushdns

@mahuyar: the only problem with this solution is that it disables the blocking of adult content. i don't want my users to start surfing porn again :-)

@davidu: any chance of a status update on this? it's the middle of the business day here in australia, and I need to know whether I should be implementing a workaround for the time being. cheers.

Microboss --- We're having a lot of trouble seeing what's wrong. None of our monitoring is tripping, and none of our logs show errors. Can you give me an idea of what errors you are seeing? And if someone is running a unix platform and wants to send me the output of "tcpdump -n -vv -s 4092 -X port 80"

Please don't post it here, but email it directly to david+traceroutes at opendns.com

aligas -- thanks! checking now.

Here's what I get with a DNS lookup of google in Australia or UK?
nslookup www.google.au
nslookup google.uk
I get an IP of 208.67.219.132
tracert 208.67.219.132
leads to hit-nxdomain.opendns.com

Didn't see anything with google.navigation.opendns.com in it. Sorry.

nslookup google.com returns various, correct google IP's for me.
tracert google.com leads to jc-in-f99-google.com

Maybe this will help.

Okay guys -- we've

Whatever you did it cleared up the issue for me. Thanks!

Dupe due to timeouts...

resolved here in australia also. thanks.

@mamazitta: you are referring to google by invalid domains which opendns resolves back to one of their own servers. it should be www.google.com.au and www.google.co.uk.

Dupe due to timeouts...