From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-04-04T05:36:02+09:00
Subject: Re: annoyance with gems and zlib

On Apr 3, 2009, at 08:52, Vincent Ds wrote:
> Ara Howard wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Vincent Ds wrote:
>>> nd got this awesome result.
>>>
>>> Updating installed gems
>>> GET 302 Found: http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
>>> GET 200 OK:
>>> http://guide.opendns.com/?url=gems.rubyforge.org%2Flatest_specs.4.8.gz&servfail
>>
>>
>> did you even try clicking the above link?
>
> Well ... to tell the truth I only got that reply once. The 90 other
> times everything just said not in gzip format without anything else. I
> was hoping it was more of a quick fix and a known issue. I'll try
> turning off opendns and see what happens then.

Did you try fetching either URL (using wget or curl or telnet)?

It seems that opendns breaks the internet on purpose.  I would avoid  
it at all cost.