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

[magnus]

Just to answer my own post, this is not news technically, but it might 
be news to some people.

http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/

Personally I'm going to stop using OpenDNS because I should have to 
opt-in to DNS munging, not opt-out of it as OpenDNS makes me do every 
time I change IP addresses.

magnus wrote:
> 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
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