DNS issues with PuTTY and WinSCP

[kevin.lund]

I recently installed PuTTY and WinSCP to do some development work, and realized that I'm having DNS issues with OpenDNS. I have to use the IP Address instead of the domain name to login. Not a huge issue, but annoying.

I know that it's OpenDNS because when I switch my DNS servers to Google, everything works fine.

Any idea on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Kevin

[rotblitz]

You check (with nslookup, dig or host) what results the DNS lookups return for the domains which you want to access via SSH, and then you take measures accordingly on your settings, like unblocking or whitelisting.  As you don't mention the domain names in question, no further hints can be given.

It's not OpenDNS, but your OpenDNS settings.  And that's the difference between OpenDNS and Google DNS: You can configure OpenDNS behavior, but not Google DNS behavior.  This bares the risk that you configure things which in fact you do not want, as in your case.