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OpenDNS is proxying Google?

In Etc, Web on Apr 8 2008. 6 comments. Add your own.

Well this is odd:

blowery@loki~> host www.google.com
www.google.com is an alias for google.navigation.opendns.com.
google.navigation.opendns.com has address 208.69.32.230
google.navigation.opendns.com has address 208.69.32.231

I’m using OpenDNS to resolve DNS at home after TimeWarner / RoadRunner failed on me one time too many. I had a little DNS hiccup this morning and discovered that gem above when digging through the mess. How interesting…

I did a little more digging and it seems that OpenDNS is doing this for a reason, though not a reason that really concerns me. Thankfully I can turn off this feature by flipping the “Enable OpenDNS proxy” toggle highlighted below. There’s also a knowledge base article about it for your perusal. The toggle takes a few minutes to activate, so if you flip it, you’ll have to wait a while to see it work. It took me about 20 minutes to pick up the change.

The Enable OpenDNS proxy setting on OpenDNS

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6 Responses to “OpenDNS is proxying Google?”

  1. David Ulevitch
    8 Apr 2008
    10:50 am

    Keep in mind that shortcuts will most certainly not work if you turn it off…

  2. Ben
    8 Apr 2008
    11:39 am

    Yup, but I don’t want any of that crazy stuff. I just want fast, reliable, correct DNS.

  3. xcore
    14 Dec 2008
    1:25 am

    Just add into your /etc/hosts
    209.85.171.100 google.com
    74.125.45.100 google.com
    72.14.205.100 google.com

    and reboot.

  4. xcore
    14 Dec 2008
    1:26 am

    If you are a *unix user.

  5. HUMAR
    17 Feb 2009
    6:33 pm

    A Windows is fine too!
    Go to C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
    Open file with notepad
    Copy the following to the file…(what is below)
    209.85.171.100 google.com
    74.125.45.100 google.com
    72.14.205.100 google.com

    ?????
    Profit

  6. Ben
    23 Feb 2009
    5:14 pm

    The only thing I don’t like about the hosts-file based solutions is that you’re basically side-stepping DNS. I want DNS to just work, not have to hack things into my hosts file because it’s not.

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