Re: Connectivity problems to google via openDNS

[Mark <mark () edgewire sg>]

Doh. Didn't realize that. Thanks for the heads up Joe. I'll go take  
another look.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Mark

On Feb 9, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Joe Abley wrote:

> On 2010-02-09, at 09:43, Mark wrote:
>
> > It's over a vpn from Asia to US. I wouldn't worry about that 280ms  
> > latency. :)
>
> Note that you're not trying to reach google, either.
>
> OpenDNS is returning you addresses for their own proxies. I believe  
> they do this as part of some of their content-control services to  
> allow you to limit the kind of search queries you (or your users,  
> depending on who decided to use OpenDNS) are able to do.
>
> So while the user problem may be "can't reach google" perhaps the  
> engineering problem is "can't get response from OpenDNS proxy".
>
>
> Joe