Hello,
We’re aware of some issues that users may be having resolving DNS requests with us
since early this morning.
Please flush your web browser caches and DNS resolver caches and then send us the
output of the instructions you receive from following
http://www.opendns.com/support/article/208 and
http://www.opendns.com/support/article/224 when using OpenDNS servers
(208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220).
-Browser Cache Flush
For Internet Explorer: Go to Tools -> Delete Browsing History -> Temporary Internet
Files -> Delete Files.
For Firefox: Go to Tools -> Clear Recent History -> Select ‘Everything’ → Clear Now
For Opera: Go to Tools -> Delete Private Data -> Delete
For Safari: Go to History -> Delete History.
For Google Chrome: Go to ‘Customize and Control Google Chrome’ (the wrench icon) ->
Options -> Under the Hood -> Clear browsing data… -> Select ‘Empty the cache’
(deselect the others) -> Clear data from this period: ‘Everything’ -> Clear browsing
data
-Local Machine DNS Resolver Cache Flush
For Windows: Open the Start Menu -> go to ‘Run’ -> type ‘cmd’ and press enter ->
type ‘ipconfig /flushdns’ and press enter. (Vista and 7 users will need to run the
command prompt ‘As Administrator.’)
For Mac OSX: (Snow Leopard) Open the Terminal application -> type ‘dscacheutil
-flushcache’ (no quotes) and press enter.
(Leopard) Open the Terminal application -> type ‘dscacheutil -flushcache’ (no
quotes) and press enter.
(Tiger) Open the Terminal application →’ lookupd -flushcache’ (no quotes) and press
enter.
For Ubuntu: Open your terminal/command line and use the command ‘sudo
/etc/init.d/nscd restart’ (no quotes) and press enter.
-Tyler.
OpenDNS Support
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