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

Brian Phelps brphelps at ieee.org
Mon Dec 7 20:38:03 EST 2009


This is probably why I was having problems when I lost internet
temporarily.  Opendns really sucks for doing this.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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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