Question re: Xenial Puppy and opendns
Question re: Xenial Puppy and opendns
In the Network information, the xenial puppy has an option to "Query opendns.com for your external IP". Please, what does this means? is it for dns resolution or like a VPN? Thanks
I have always used OpenDNS, both with Slacko 64-6.3.2 and an old version of OpenSuse (11.3), with no problems.musher0 wrote:FWIW, I never was able to get opendns to work with any Puppy.
The two Internet providers I had during that period would not let
me connect to anything through opendns.
Good luck, but trying may be a waste your time.
It's probably your provider that is limiting your access!
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The option in Puppy Network Information is (I believe) only there to provide you (the user) with the one piece of information, your external (wan) IP address. It does not do anything else.
If you want to know your external IP address you have to make a connection to an external host and the host feeds the information back to you. This used to be icanhazip.com in earlier Puppies. Someone must have changed this to opendns.com for some reason. The option to disable is in case you don't want the external connection to be made. It is not changing your IP address or DNS query system. You can do these things if you want, but you have to take other steps.
If you want to know your external IP address you have to make a connection to an external host and the host feeds the information back to you. This used to be icanhazip.com in earlier Puppies. Someone must have changed this to opendns.com for some reason. The option to disable is in case you don't want the external connection to be made. It is not changing your IP address or DNS query system. You can do these things if you want, but you have to take other steps.
Oscar in England
Thanks, OscarTalks, it's clear to me nowOscarTalks wrote:The option in Puppy Network Information is (I believe) only there to provide you (the user) with the one piece of information, your external (wan) IP address. It does not do anything else.
If you want to know your external IP address you have to make a connection to an external host and the host feeds the information back to you. This used to be icanhazip.com in earlier Puppies. Someone must have changed this to opendns.com for some reason. The option to disable is in case you don't want the external connection to be made. It is not changing your IP address or DNS query system. You can do these things if you want, but you have to take other steps.
You can always get the IP and the browser info that is reported
to websites here http://www.orrin.org/youare.php
to websites here http://www.orrin.org/youare.php
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Nice orrin,
But not quite as nice as the draft brief a law clerk prepared citing as an authority a footnote to a Law Review Article. He had written the footnote.
Since his citation was on point, I didn't edited it out.
And I've bookmarked your post should I ever have need to determine the information it provides.
Thanks,
mikesLr
But not quite as nice as the draft brief a law clerk prepared citing as an authority a footnote to a Law Review Article. He had written the footnote.
Since his citation was on point, I didn't edited it out.
And I've bookmarked your post should I ever have need to determine the information it provides.
Thanks,
mikesLr