Why oh why does OpenDNS keep telling me Facebook is ‘down’? It’s not!
- April 11th, 2008
- 10 Comments
For whatever nerdy reason I switched over to OpenDNS about a month ago. Actually, no. The reason was because I was tired of seeing that stupid Time Warner Road Runner every time I mistyped a URL or whatever. Well now OpenDNS refuses to load several pages, including CrunchGear and Facebook. What gives? I go to the main site and it says everything is up and running, yet I try to visit the offending Web site and I still get that same error message up there. Everyone I talk to online says the site is loading just fine for them.
You all should know by now that I get annoyed very easily, so this latest issue is just another test of my patience.
Adam (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Dude, you can turn off that stupid roadrunner page. Look at the tiny links at the bottom of the page. I turned mine off some time ago.
Sabas (Who am I?)
4 months ago
That’s odd. No problems here.
Andy Beal (Who am I?)
4 months ago
I use FF on a Mac with OpenDNS. If FF has been open for some time, then all of a sudden I start getting errors.
Do you see the same error with other browsers or computers?
Nicholas Deleon (Who am I?)
4 months ago
I did and I didn’t. I created a new profile in FF and then everything worked. Then I launch Safari and the problem returns. Then I go back to FF and the problem comes back.
Right now, I’m back to Time Warner’s servers, I think. I just put 0.0.0.0 for all the servers in my router settings.
Michael (Who am I?)
4 months ago
I had to switch back from OpenDNS because I was having similar problems, I hate when things don’t work right and for some reason OpenDNS does this type of thing all the time.
brian cometa (Who am I?)
4 months ago
hi nick,
i don’t think it’s a opendns issue, i’m also able to see facebook with no problem.
my guess is it’s cache. in safari, click “Safari” and then “Empty Cache.” in firefox, go to “Tools” and “Clear Private Data” - unselect everything but “Cache” and click “Clear Private Data Now.”
also, to go back to your time warner dns, 0.0.0.0 may not work. you want to point to the address of your router (i.e. 192.168.0.1), assuming you didn’t change the settings on the router itself. if you changed the dns on the router, just clear it out and leave blank. your isp’s dns will automatically be used.
hope that helps,
brian
http://www.corewerkz.com
Guillermo (Who am I?)
4 months ago
It happens to me all the time in Leopard. Type ’sudo dscacheutil -flushcache’ in Terminal and it goes away.
Nicholas Deleon (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Hmm, that seems technical enough to work. Next time it happens I’ll be trying that command. Thanks.
-na
ivan s. (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Well, that worked for me (it was now Gmail).
ivan s. (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Happenned to me today with TechCrunch, for about 30 mins.
Grrr.