Second Life Herald – Access at last

I had been aware that there is a tabloid called Second Life Herald for some time now.  From everything I had heard, they usually talk about the negative side of Second Life.  I could not confirm nor deny this, and even refused to put a link to it on my blog because I could not access it.  I knew that it had something to do with my DNS servers, because I could not even ping the domain name.

I hopped on over to Torleys blog today and read through a few posts.  One in particular addressed problems with DNS servers not having current IP addresses.  Torley changed domain names recently and the DNS server was still caching the old IP address.  A few people were actually able to see the site on the new IP address, but Torley was stuck in the past.

In comes OpenDNS.  Torley found out about OpenDNS at LiewCF, that it was a free service that they could use rather then the one from there own ISP.  I headed on over and tried it out myself.  It was quick and easy.  I already knew something about TCP/IP settings, so I was happy that there was a “quick and dirty” short cut on step 1 for those of us who didn’t need to have every step explained to us.  I just copied the IP’s listed, and BAM! I was able to hit the Second Life Herald.