Using OpenDNS to Get Around Dead Sites
July 28, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Software & Online Apps
There seems to have been something wrong with AT&T’s pipes to the Internet today. A number of websites seemed to be down and wouldn’t load for a variety of people. Through all of the discussion I heard many suggestions to use OpenDNS to get around these challenges.
"DNS" stands for domain name services or system. The service that’s provided is the translation of all of those domain names people register to the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of the computers/servers that are hosting the files that make-up that website.
The challenge is that many hosting providers use their own DNS translators and if …read more
