opendns blunder

theringmaster · 2008-03-10 02:15:50

I tried to switch my dns to opendns by following the instructions they give for my linksys wireless router. When I hit "save changes" my gnome freezes up and I'm forced to change the dns values back to what they were with my laptop (runs vista still). I can still move the mouse but I can't click on anything (frozen?). I think I made a post about a similar problem involving this router. I have narrowed it down to gnome because as a test I logged in to a fail-safe terminal (via gdm) and installed openbox and yes I was able to start openbox nicely. so yeah gnome is my culprit. Anyone else have this problem. Probably just me, eh? hehe.

blu3ness · 2008-03-10 02:31:05

If I understand correctly, you are visiting your router's configuration web interface, and then your system would freeze after changing the DNS servers to opendns servers?

That sounds ... very interesting...

I use openDNS as well, but I don't experience your problems.. odd

brebs · 2008-03-10 02:46:57

Did you edit /etc/hosts? Gnome still needs to be able to e.g. ping localhost.

Anyway, I always recommend to use "bind/named". DNS is too important to leave to others

Last edited by brebs (2008-03-10 02:48:23)

theringmaster · 2008-03-10 02:56:49

blu3ness wrote:

If I understand correctly, you are visiting your router's configuration web interface, and then your system would freeze after changing the DNS servers to opendns servers?
That sounds ... very interesting...
I use openDNS as well, but I don't experience your problems.. odd

are you using gnome? and yes that is exactly my situation.

Last edited by theringmaster (2008-03-10 03:01:27)

theringmaster · 2008-03-10 13:27:16

brebs wrote:

Did you edit /etc/hosts? Gnome still needs to be able to e.g. ping localhost.
Anyway, I always recommend to use "bind/named". DNS is too important to leave to others

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain gnome-box
# End of file

that's what my /etc/hosts looks like. You see i've replace "localhost" with my actual hostname, but should I switch it to localhost?

finferflu · 2008-03-10 13:57:27

It should be like this:

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain           localhost    gnome-box

# End of file

I also use OpenDNS, but I have changed my nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and then put this line in /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd so that resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten when dhcp is run next time:

DHCPCD_ARGS="-R -t 30 -h $HOSTNAME"

theringmaster · 2008-03-13 01:48:57

finferflu wrote:

It should be like this:
#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain           localhost    gnome-box

# End of file
I also use OpenDNS, but I have changed my nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and then put this line in /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd so that resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten when dhcp is run next time:
DHCPCD_ARGS="-R -t 30 -h $HOSTNAME"

You must have just one computer connected to your internet. I have two my desktop and laptop (via wireless), so I thought I could change the dns in the router so that whatever computer connects to my wireless and wired network would use opendns. I have changed the /etc/hosts file to look like what you put here, so I'll try to do it again later.

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#1 2008-03-10 02:15:50

opendns blunder

#2 2008-03-10 02:31:05

Re: opendns blunder

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#4 2008-03-10 02:56:49

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#5 2008-03-10 13:27:16

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