[TriLUG] OpenDNS is hijacking Google.com DNS lookups (was "New Public DNS from Google")

[magnus]

Paul McLanahan wrote:
> It's an opensource app that will run on Win/Lin/Mac that will
> benchmark several of the global and regional free DNS serivces, as
> well as any other you choose, and give you recommendations for a
> better configuration. It also pointed out that OpenDNS has hijacked
> www.google.com and pointed it to google.navigation.opendns.com, which,
> if true, it kindof troubling.

Confirmed. My local nameserver is using OpenDNS as a forwarder.

magnus at orca:~$ dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2.1 <<>> www.google.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5584
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.         30      IN      CNAME   
google.navigation.opendns.com.
google.navigation.opendns.com. 30 IN    A       208.69.32.231
google.navigation.opendns.com. 30 IN    A       208.69.32.230

;; Query time: 15 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.55.1#53(192.168.55.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Dec  7 23:33:39 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104