The Consumerist — among my favorite Web sites — doesn’t normally get this geeky.
It seems as though some Qwest customers are having had a hard time downloading videos from YouTube … and the finger of blame is being pointed not at Qwest or YouTube but OpenDNS.
The comments are interesting if you’re into arguments about the inner workings of DNS, and also because of this reply buried deep in the string from a bleary-eyed David Ulevitch of OpenDNS:
Hey guys — David from OpenDNS here. It’s late tonight, so excuse my brevity. Bottom line is that I haven’t heard about this issue before but you can be sure we’ll be figuring out what’s going on. I definitely don’t want people to have a slower experience using OpenDNS no matter the site.
I have colleagues in the networking department at Qwest and folks in the netops dept. at Google/YouTube so hopefully we’ll get the issue figured out and resolved quickly; whatever it may be. 🙂
The Consumerist gets results.
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