New DNS entry will not take effect

[Karl Larsen]

Wade Smart wrote:
> 20080728 0744 GMT-6
>
> Yesterday I changed my dns to opendns. I opened the network gui and put in my 
> opendns addr's but when I went back later, they were not there.
>
> Then I found a post on this:
> sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
>
> and tried that and still, it did not take. Found another post saying:
> sudo gedit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>
> and add:
> prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220;
>
> which I did and still it did not take.
>
> Im not sure what is up here but surely I dont have to use my ISP's dns.
>
> Wade
>
>   
    Hi Wade, I am not sure what a opendns is but in general dns changes 
take about 3 to 7 days to start working. So please wait awhile and it 
might start working :-)

Karl


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