Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. OPEN is just the name of a server, and there are lots of DNS units throughout the world. The primary ip address for OPEN is 208.67.222.222 and the secondary ip address is 208.67.220.220 The purpose of a

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread peterhaas
The specified DNS can be changed (which is another subject) however the DNS is by default set by your internet provider. The default DNS can be reset by reseting your internet box. A lot of folks ELECT to use a secondary DNS as their primary DNS as that secondary DNS offers improved

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Jerry
Actually, its Domain Name System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System On 04/30/13 11:43 AM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings, DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:43 -0700 4/30/13, gifutiger wrote: DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. OPEN is just the name of a server, and there are lots of DNS units throughout the world. Just to avoid confusion. In this context DNS is Domain Name Server and is very much

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Jerry
Doug, I am not sure I am following you here on the on the RFC 1918 address space issue. Unless a person has set up an internal DNS server resolving private address space, a person would either typically specify the private address directly, or would use a hosts file for internal usage. Can

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Dan
At 4:00 PM -0500 04/30/2013, Jerry wrote: I am not sure I am following [Doug] here on the on the RFC 1918 address space issue. Unless a person has set up an internal DNS server resolving private address space, a person would either typically specify the private address directly, or would use

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Doug McNutt
We use a router provided by our service provider which used to be Qwest but is now Century Communications. The modem that talks to the telephone pair with radio frequency above the voice band also acts as a domain name server. Other machines which usually have cute names that we assign have