At work we use OpenDNS and it has wrongly blocked irc.freenode.net for malware. How can I make sure that any request for *.freenode.net goes to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google's DNS).
I tried doing this by fiddling with resolv.conf on Ubuntu, but I wasn't able to get too far. Also, is there an easy way to do this for Mac and Windows systems (I have a few colleagues using those OSes and they'd like to use IRC as well).
Best Answer
Linux does not support the use of domain-specific DNS servers via
resolv.conf. You could potentially work around this by running a caching nameserver (such asBINDordnsmasq) locally and then configuring explicit forwarders for each domain.Under OS X, this sort of setting is relatively easy using the
scutilcommand. The common use case for this configuration is to forward DNS requests for a VPN connection to VPN-specific DNS servers, so you'll find this discussed often in concert with, e.g., OpenVPN. This document talks about thescutilcommand as does this, and a Google search foropenvpnandscutilwill yield more results.I'm not sure about Windows. You could presumably use the local DNS server solution for all three platforms if you needed to.