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Internet disconnections are really annoying especially when you’re in the middle of research, about to save a blog post, or simply can’t connect to your favorite website. Simply pinging your DNS server will do the trick but if the DNS server itself of your ISP is down, what are you going to do? Fortunately, there’s OpenDNS and you can simply replace the DNS IP address on your router (192.168.1.1 on Linksys routers). That is, you can point your DNS servers to these IP addresses 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. That’s all there is to it. Once you get your internet connection back up and running, you may use Down for Everyone or Just Me link to verify if the site you want to visit is really down or if it’s simply your ISP.

For now, OpenDNS is working great for me. I’ve been using it for a week now and so far, so good. I have yet to see if it’s really reliable but so far, I have never looked back at the DNS IP addresses given by my ISP.

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