zalternate Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 Is anyone using OpenDNS and when they go to Google.com. Has the page rendered weird this past week, as in slow, or parts fading in to view, or a wait to get to it fully loaded? The Google page when using OpenDNS, is a clone page hosted through OpenDNS. Or at least when I went to Google.com, my ShowIP add/on , showed it was opendns's address instead of Googles. I've switched dns servers now so I'll have to see if the issue goes away fully. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS While the OpenDNS name resolution service is free, people have complained about how the service handles failed requests. If a domain cannot be found, the service redirects you to a search page with search results and advertising provided by Yahoo!. A DNS user can switch this off via the OpenDNS Control Panel but will loose content filtering ability. This behavior is similar to that of many large ISP's who also redirect failed requests to their own servers containing advertising. [12] In 2007, David Ulevitch explained that in response to Dell installing "Browser Address Error Redirector" software on their PCs, OpenDNS started resolving requests to Google.com. Some of the traffic is handled by OpenDNS typo-correcting service which corrects mistyped addresses and redirects keyword addresses to OpenDNS's search page, while the rest is transparently passed through to the intended recipient.[13] Also, a user's search request from the address bar of a browser that is configured to use the Google search engine (with a certain parameter configured) may be covertly redirected to a server owned by OpenDNS without the user's consent (but within the OpenDNS Terms of Service).[14] Users can disable this behavior by logging in to their OpenDNS account and unchecking "OpenDNS proxy" option.[15] Additionally, Mozilla users can fix this problem by installing an extension[16] or by simply changing or removing the navclient sourceid from their keyword search URLs. This redirection breaks some non-web applications which rely on getting an NXDOMAIN for non-existent domains, such as e-mail spam filtering, or VPN access where the private network's nameservers are consulted only when the public ones fail to resolve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlucardHS Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 nope, all my pages look the same with OpenDNS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted October 22, 2009 Author CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 So the Google.com page fade in, is a new 'test' of pissing off the people that use Google. But the page itself is loading better with the different DNS server IP's. http://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&source=hp&q=google+fade+in&aq=f&aqi=g1g-s1g1&oq=&fp=8ec9ea851cee2c5b http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/googles-experimental-homepage-fades-to-a-single-word/ Google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlucardHS Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 mine doesn't fade in it just loads quick like it always has. it could be your browser or something have you tried a different browser? or another PC in the house or anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 Iv'e seen it, until this post, I actually thought it was a network failure , lag of some sort. twas last week while working at a clients home on a crapped out system, and the netgear router that shat itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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