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CloudFlare DNS, Google DNS, and OpenDNS will not recognize domain's nameservers

About 5 days ago I changed the nameservers on a domain (theswaffords.com) to AWS Route 53 nameservers. The domain is registered with iPage. It worked, and the site is accessible on some browsers. But ...
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Cisco Umbrella Identifies DNS Request as Malicious and Looks Like it's From our Domain Controller

Our Cisco Umbrella service is identifying DNS requests to rev1.globalrootservers.net and rev2.globalrootservers.net as malicious. I am trying to figure out whether this is really a problem or if it is ...
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Site not resolving uniformly

My site www.acurent.com is not resolving to its IP address 23.20.46.124 uniformly Check on: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/acurent.com, it shows that its resolving for certain networks only. If you ...
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Some VPN traffic blocked to secure endpoints

I have a VPN server (strongswan) used for testing that I connect to via IKEv2 on a variety of systems (here, I tried Windows, Ubuntu, & Android), normally without issues. This morning, I was on a ...
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Is it possible to redirect DNS quries to different URL/DNS like opendns

I have an unbound DNS Resolver in my office lab. I m using this service to block ads and unwanted domains. Is there any possibilities to redirect DNS quires to a specific URL/DNS that shows the site/...
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Using different DNS with Squid based on client IP

I have a network with a policy where some clients have to use openDNS for page filtering and some are allowed any DNS (e.g. Google DNS). I am using Squid in transparent mode for all connections to the ...
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Preventing circumvention of OpenDNS with iptables on a gateway server

I'm trying to setup iptables rules on my gateway server to force my kids to use opendns (I've recently discovered that 1 of them has manually is using google DNS instead on his local computer). Here ...
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Alternative ways to get past 32 rpz zone limit in BIND? ...without running BIND a thousand times

Using BIND RPZs gives me exactly what I'm looking for to alter queries. However, my recursive DNS server is in use by hundreds of clients and I am looking for a way to allow each client some level of ...
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OpenDNS: got insecure response; parent indicates it should be secure

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS on following system: root@ubuntu-1gb-nyc2-01:~# uname -a Linux ubuntu-1gb-nyc2-01 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/...
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Google Domains only works with Google open DNS

I purchased a domain with Google domains, but I can only use the DNS with computers that have Google Open DNS connected. I connect the computer to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for DNS, but on any other ...
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BIND DNS to DNSSEC Converting Forwarder

I have an internal only DNS server running on BIND 9.8.4 on Debian, this recurses and caches all queries other than internal domain (ourdomain.lan) to OpenDNS. What I am hoping to do is to have all ...
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Active Directory OpenDNS forwarding

I currently have set up my Windows DNS to forward to OpenDNS. However, all traffic in OpenDNS shows up from the IP of my local Windows DNS server. Is there any way I can make the individual devices ...
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Fix/Bypass "Cannot connect to the real website-blocked" error in Google Chrome with OpenDNS blocking

Tl;Dr: How do I stop chrome from refusing to load pages that are blocked by OpenDNS, where the server has explicitly requested HTTPS? Long question: I have a large problem with Chrome in my ...
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Cached response times from Google Public DNS slow

I noticed very strange but consistent performance behavior from Google Public DNS 8.8.8.8. Even-though a DNS record was cached, the response time was in the range of 20-30ms, which seems high. When I ...
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New DNS settings from router not pushed to all stations

After updating the static DNS settings on our Cisco WRVS4400N router, approx 1/3 of stations did not receive the new DNS settings. On the stations that did not receive the new settings, ipconfig /all ...
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Bind with openDNS forwarder fails to resolve some local domains

I have a local DNS server set up for my network, which is set up to resolve local machines and forward anything non-local up the chain. Some of the definitions single depth subdomains, e.g. time A ...
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Is it possible to use opendns on centos 5 vps [closed]

I have a centos 5 vps, didn't want to install any cpanel, i want to setup nameservers so is it possible to use opendns to do that and how?
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Domain Controller, DNS Server and OpenDNS - Block 1 user?

We have a domain controller (Windows Server 2008R2) which is also our DNS server. The DNS server has a forwarder that points to OpenDNS (www.opendns.org). All of our workstations (Windows XP Pro) are ...
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Can I specify more than two DNS in dd-wrt? Different company DNS?

Right now my "Additional DNSMasq options" is as follows: no-resolv strict-order server=208.67.222.222 server=208.67.222.220 1. can I specify OpenDns for the first and genuity for the second (i.e. 4.2....
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Do we need a DNS server when we use OpenDNS?

I am in the process of splitting roles up from one server to 5. The current server is running as a DNS server, among other things. The DNS server just has a forwarder to the OpenDNS IP addresses and ...
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specify static ip on a windows network but obtain dns automatically from router

We are using OpenDNS on our router and we want all the windows clients to obtain DNS automatically from the router. The problem is that some of the client machines the ip address is to be set as ...
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Problems with DNS propagation 10 days after a change was made

The engineering team I work with has been in the process of moving equipment from one datacenter to another. Ten days ago we moved one of our name servers authoritative for our client's domains (ns1....
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Redirect specific domains with DNS

Currently we filter internet content using OpenDNS, our internal Windows DC/DNS servers point to the router's DNS, which then points to the OpenDNS servers. This works well to block all computer's on ...
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How to forward DNS request to OpenDNS using eBox/Zentyal Server and wihout the use HTTP Proxy

I use eBox/Zentyal as Gateway and Infrastructure. I do filtering of sites. OpenDNS only works if I'd set HTTP Proxy enabled. How about without the use of HTTP Proxy. I'd try to configure and add 208....
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What to filter when providing very limited open WiFi to a small conference or meeting?

Executive Summary The basic question is: if you have a very limited bandwidth WiFi to provide Internet for a small meeting of only a day or two, how do you set the filters on the router to avoid one ...
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How to implement OpenDNS style proxying of web traffic

I have a requirement that I believe may be impossible and wanted to confirm this with experts in this community. A client wants us to configure a DNS server to resolve certain domains to an IP ...
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Possible to get OpenDNS to dereference Host on VPN?

I recently changed ISPs for my home internet. I am now having some trouble getting back into the corporate network from home over the VPN. I have figured out that OpenDNS is resolving the Hosts on ...
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Server access problem because of DNS

i have a web site and if i use these dns addres 195.175.39.40 and 195.175.39.39(they are default dns addresses in my country's isp), i can't reach my web sit but if i use opendns or googledns i can ...
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OpenDNS IP Conflict

I have downloaded the OpenDNS client and it was working great till today. Shows me this error: dynamic IP update failed with message !yours or "Your IP address is taken by another user." I am ...
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Centos 5.4 (x86_64) DNS resolution woes

I've setup a Centos 5.4 (x86_64) box in a VM recently; the trouble is I just can't get internet to work on it. Pinging the resolved google.com ips, nameserver ips works fine but DNS lookup queries ...
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DNS trouble - think it might be caused by two NS records

About a week ago, I updated my DNS, adding: HOST, TYPE, VALUE, TTL *.soup-team.com CNAME www.myopenid.com 3600 mail.soup-team.com CNAME ghs.google.com 3600 HOST, TYPE, VALUE, MX, TTL soup-team.com ...
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DNS Settings Being Ignored

I'm trying to set up my LAN with OpenDNS, and it seems that my DNS settings are being completely ignored. Even if I set my laptop (running Ubuntu) to have only the OpenDNS primary IP (and verify in ...
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Require authoritative answer for DNS resolution

We have two forward lookup zones (intranet.com and mayberry.com) that aren't actually registered to us. Sometimes, our MS DNS server forwards the queries for network resources within these domains to ...
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Conflicting DNS results in OpenDNS cache

I have a domain name for a site that I am maintaining for a client. Being fairly inexperienced with DNS configuration, I'm having some trouble getting the domain name to point at the correct server ...
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What are some other services like Open DNS?

First of all, what's the term for services like Open DNS? Public DNS servers? I like how Open DNS allows content filtering and statistics monitoring. But I just wanted to get an idea of what else was ...
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setting up my linksys router for openDNS [closed]

I've set up my home router(linksys) so it uses opendns.com as a content filter. I followed their simple guidelines. It works, but not as expected. Please Note I have three computers at home ...
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Is OpenDNS safe to use in a location with Exchange/Reverse DNS

I like OpenDNS, but was wondering if anyone has experience deploying it for a location with an Exchange installation. I'm concerned specifically about whether any filtering they do would cause ...
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