Opendns stopped working.

thor

I have been using opendns with my belkin router for years successfully blocking out access to youtube on certain computers. That was until yesterday when I found that youtube was loading up on these computers and on further investigation that they were not being serviced by opendns at all.
My router has been set up to use opendns addresses
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 and the target computers are accepting DNS server addresses automatically from the router so I can't see why they are not using opendns servers.
Is anyone else on virginmedia having similar troubles with opendns?

thor

Panic over: Just realised my ip address had changed and that I needed to configure my opendns account to reflect this.
All working now.

Im_just_careful

There is a bit of software from OpenDNS have that you can run on a PC which will keep your Open DNS account configured to match your IP addres.

See http://www.opendns.com/support/dynamic_ip_tech/

Notmyrealname

thor wrote: »

Panic over: Just realised my ip address had changed and that I needed to configure my opendns account to reflect this.
All working now.

This is what happens when you use OpenDNS for website blocking with a dynamic IP instead of doing it with the router.

On my Netgear I can manually assign blocks to set IP addresses. Give each computer a static IP and job done.

thor

Well I know that virginmedia provides dynamic ip addressing but it had hardly changed over the years I have been with them. The only reason it did so this time was because I forced it to (There was a reason why but I can't remember).
Now that I am aware of opendns requiring you to configure ip addresses it should be a doddle to fix it if it ever needs fixing again. I suppose I could automate the process as suggested by 'Im Just Careful' but I like doing things manually as it means you have more chance of remembering how to do things like this.