While writing this I received some IMs leading me to believe I've been offline for a couple of hours. Initially I thought it was perhaps hiccups I've seen in the past where power cycling the cable modem clears things up. That wasn't the case this time. I went into my router's dashboard and released my TCP/IP address and asked for a new one by way of DHCP. With each attempt (since I still wasn't getting anywhere) I promptly received the same IP address which gave me a hunch basic network connectivity was available. I then pinged Comcast's DNS server and promptly got a response
Pinging 68.87.69.150 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 68.87.69.150: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=105
Reply from 68.87.69.150: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=105
Reply from 68.87.69.150: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=105
Reply from 68.87.69.150: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=105
Armed with that knowledge I setup OpenDNS. I had actually been running with OpenDNS under Windows XP for quite a while but I moved to Windows 7 last week and hadn't yet bothered. Well, suffice to say, the only reason I can even post this at this hour is because of OpenDNS. In short, OpenDNS rocks, use it.
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