Qwest DSL and OpenDNS… opting out of the DNS override.

While reconfiguring the network at the church, I noticed that my DNS queries were not getting curbed by OpenDNS. Browsing to ‘bad’ sites should give you a no no page from OpenDNS, but nothing was tripping it… not even 4chan :S

The I realized that Qwest is doing some DNS override where they actually do the DNS query.

The Solution

You need to opt out of this “wonderful” service from Qwest.

http://www.qwest.net/web.help/?confirm=1

After that, it was just fine.

I guess Qwest couldn’t resist trying to pick up that money on the table since they have access to all that traffic…. wonder how much money they make on ads.

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