Warning When Using OpenDNS

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu May 22 08:40:44 PDT 2014


On 2014-05-22 12:01, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> I was looking into additional online security measure a while ago. I cam across some info discussing the benefits of using OpenDNS name servers which I then decided to try. 
> 
> Since doing that, port prints a warning: Warning: Your DNS servers incorrectly claim to know the address of nonexistent hosts. This may cause checksum mismatches for some ports.
> 
> What are the thoughts on this, is using their name servers beneficial and will it likely cause issues when using port?

Here is some more information on the MacPorts wiki:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers

FYI, the next release will also print the link to this page in the
message in the hope that it explains why this is happening.

Rainer


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