This is a copy of my post to the wildblueworld forum from 1/20/2013... It may be useful to you.
"I woke up early this morning at 6AM to find a non-functional connection. I could not resolve names via DNS. I did some tests, only to find that all of my DNS requests were being hijacked. So, I did some research (via our EVDO connection) and found that OpenDNS runs their servers on UDP port 53 and UDP port 5353. Pushing DNS requests over port 5353 were not being hijacked (they must be hijacking everything over port 53).
I reconfigured our router running DD-WRT to use OpenDNS over port 5353, and everything worked correctly. Names resolved reliably, and I was able to utilize OpenDNS features (phish block, misspelled name correction, etc). Sure names resolved slightly slower, but I would rather have it work slower and reliably, rather than fail randomly. If you are running DD-WRT on your router (more info at »
www.dd-wrt.org) you can modify your DNSMasq settings:
On the Services Tab, edit the "Additional DNSMasq Options" with the following lines:
server=208.67.222.222#5353
server=208.67.220.220#5353"
This has resolved the DNS issues on my parents Excede connection. Of course it hasn't fixed the fact their beam has gone down and the modem has lost sync several times.
-Jamie
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