Emery back to NHL?

wprager wrote:I just did a lookup of the khl.ru at http://cqcounter.com/whois/. This gave me 89.111.189.140. Typed that into the location bar and got to the site. So it's definitely a DNS lookup problem. I wonder if I can manually add that to some local DNS table.

What location, in Ottawa, are you? I'm out here in Morgan's Grant. I bet we're on different DNS servers.

Rogers has been having DNS issues lately. Last week they had a lot of problems and a lot of sites were inaccessible. Your "local DNS" is your "hosts" file. You can update that if you want to and it will resolve the IP for you. But I'd suggest you try and find out what's going on first.

Are you connected to a router? I'd suggest you give that a power cycle.

I'm on Rogers as well but don't use their DNS. I use OpenDNS.

DashRiprock wrote:http://www.sportsnet.ca/thewire/hockey/2008/10/07/ray_emery_back_in_nhl/

One team has apparently already inquired into his services, though Emery, who is on a two-year deal with an out clause at the end of thsi year, is intent on finishing out this season with Atlant of the KHL.

According to Pierre McGuire this was completely false.

Shabbs - is OpenDNS as fast as Rogers? I'm on Sympatico, but occ. have the same problem (although not as bad as wprager, from what it sounds).

I was looking at trying to build my hosts file, but it seemed like such a PITA; OpenDNS seems like such an easier option.

[quote="shabbs]Rogers has been having DNS issues lately. Last week they had a lot of problems and a lot of sites were inaccessible. Your "local DNS" is your "hosts" file. You can update that if you want to and it will resolve the IP for you. But I'd suggest you try and find out what's going on first.

Are you connected to a router? I'd suggest you give that a power cycle.

I'm on Rogers as well but don't use their DNS. I use OpenDNS.[/quote]

No, I'm connected straight through to the modem (I've got a wireless router sitting there as well but that's for my laptop -- the desktop is wired to the modem).

Is it fairly obvious how to replace Rogers DNS server with OpenDNS?

Acrobat wrote:Shabbs - is OpenDNS as fast as Rogers? I'm on Sympatico, but occ. have the same problem (although not as bad as wprager, from what it sounds).

I was looking at trying to build my hosts file, but it seemed like such a PITA; OpenDNS seems like such an easier option.

OpenDNS claim to offer safer and faster DNS services. Give it a spin if ya like. Just change your DNS settings to make use of theirs and try it out.

More info: http://www.opendns.com/

wprager wrote:No, I'm connected straight through to the modem (I've got a wireless router sitting there as well but that's for my laptop -- the desktop is wired to the modem).

That seems like an odd setup. The connections should be Coax cable --> Cable Modem --> Wireless Router --> Computer(s). Your wired computer should be plugged in to your wireless router. Did you set it up that way on purpose? Or did Rogers do that?

wprager wrote:Is it fairly obvious how to replace Rogers DNS server with OpenDNS?

It's a matter of updating your TCP/IP settings to use the OpenDNS servers. They have instructions on their web site:

https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/

Take a look to get an idea of what needs to be done.

shabbs wrote:
That seems like an odd setup. The connections should be Coax cable --> Cable Modem --> Wireless Router --> Computer(s). Your wired computer should be plugged in to your wireless router. Did you set it up that way on purpose? Or did Rogers do that?

My apologies, I didn't mean to imply that. It is how you said it should be.

shabbs wrote:It's a matter of updating your TCP/IP settings to use the OpenDNS servers. They have instructions on their web site:

https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/

Take a look to get an idea of what needs to be done.

That's what I thought, but the web page talked about various bells'n'whistles that implied something to download.

It's all set up as I type. Just tried khl.ru and it works. Thanks.