Troubleshooting DNS Issues of BSNL Broadband February 6, 2007
Posted by Raj in DataOne.trackback
It’s been so many times that I was connected to ADSL without much trouble but could not browse websites like Google and Yahoo. After disconnecting and connecting back, several times, I could finally see Google showing up but other sites did not!
At first, I believed it to be an issue with the line. Only after going through some more troubleshooting steps, I realised that it was not the link but something else.
I disconnected and connected back. Then I started to ping the DNS addresses and that was it. None of the DNS servers assigned by DataOne were pingable for more than once [out of 4 ping requests]. This was the problem I guessed. After few hours when things were back to normal, I searched on net and forums for DNS servers from other DataOne zones such as Delhi. I tried the DNS server addresses in my connection and it worked fine for almost a week and then things were back as if it never made any difference by using alternate DNS addresses of BSNL DataOne.
I wanted to give up and throw away the modem out of my window, but then just couldn’t do it. Google came to the rescue and when I finally saw Internet moving, searched for DNS servers and I was glad to find OpenDNS.
OpenDNS is a free DNS solution that lets you use the freely available DNS server addresses from OpenDNS and since last 2 weeks the Internet speed is just getting better. OpenDNS based DNS addresses corrects the mis-spelled URLs and also gives you notices in browser window when you accidently open a phishing site.
Go ahead and give it a try, I am sure you will thank me for this. 
Hey i switched to Open Dns and every other damn DNS i cud search for…but nothing’s helping!
Navneet – What seems to be the problem? Are you able to ping the IP address of the DNS servers of OpenDNS? That would be the first step to troubleshoot your connection while using OpenDNS.