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3/2/2015 3:13:11 PM
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Take care when changing your DNS server.
For example the Open DNS and Google services you provided are both based in California ... which is fine if that is a short number of hops from your router. However for customers further away in the US, or even worse outside of the US, may end up worse off given the extended number of hops required to resolved host names.
An easy way to test ... run a ping test between these two addresses and that currently used by your router.
And part 2 of this change ...
If your ISP has a data cap, and part of that cap includes "free" addresses ... for example a bundled movie/entertainment package ... that this may now use up your cap as these "free" site can be masked through the alternate DNS lookup.
And remember this is just a simple DNS lookup ... after that the game should be using the resolved address.
However it would be nice to hear from bungie if this is recommended/required ... and if so for which hostnames.
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Actually OpenDNS and Google DNS are both anycast so regardless of where you are you are contacting the closest DNS servers to you. If you are in the UK then you are hitting their London datacenters not a DNS server back in California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
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*sigh* Still nothing working for me. Been getting Marionberry for 3 months now. PS4-Central Canada
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OpenDNS actually has quite a few data centers around the world. Supposedly, the tech they use ensures you connect to the closest servers available to you. Great points about DNS in general, though. Traceroute is also a good tool so you can see the hops. That's how I stumbled on OpenDNS years ago. I was troubleshooting some Netflix buffering issues and realized my ISP had me routing through Texas Netflix servers and I'm on the west coast. :-/
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Very true! I just wanted to help people get online easily since a lot of em have been unable to play destiny for over 12+ hours. I don't want to sound negative in any way, but most gamers don't feel comfortable pinging ip's. I just thought this would be a temp fix to help people get back online (until bungie resolved the issue) since there was a lot of angry guardians out there. But anyway, you're right on all accounts... and yes it'd be wonderful if bungie was more quick to respond to topics like this instead of just hoping the community deals with it til the problem is fixed. Even a recommended plan of action in the event that this happens again would be nice, instead of a link to a BANJO or MARIONBERRY page that tells people to repeatedly unplug all their networking peripherals. Anyway, great input!! Thanks!!
