Like the rest of the world, we noted with interest the announcement of the iPhone at yesterday’s Macworld keynote.

By “noted with interest” I really mean “we all are crushed it’s not available yet.”

As soon as the device is available in the wild, we’ll write instructions about how to switch the DNS settings to OpenDNS nameservers. In fact, I’ve selflessly (?) volunteered to purchase the device for the sole (ahem) purpose of writing these instructions.

Would this count as a “business” expense?!?

An hour ago, one of our customers asked why they couldn’t get to Lycos.com to check their email. I checked www.lycos.com, lycos.com, and hotwired.com with OpenDNS CacheCheck, and confirmed that the nameservers at Lycos are timing out. I double-checked with a third-party site, DNSstuff: same results.

All five nameservers are timing out, right now:
ns1.hotwired.com
ns2.hotwired.com
ns3.hotwired.com
ns4.hotwired.com
ns5.hotwired.com

I’m pointing this glitch out as a proactive customer support measure for OpenDNS users. I expect this will be fixed rapidly, but it’s been 60 minutes already.