[dns-operations] OpenDNS Issue with Mail and Other Services?

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 05:17:22PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Getting issues from west-coast US clients trying to access services
> like O365, Yahoo, GMail, etc.  east-coast US doesn't seem to have the
> same issue.
> 
> DNS servers are:
> 
> 208.67.222.222
> 208.67.220.220
> 
> Switching to Google (8.8.8.8) fixes the issue.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Ray

Additional detail:

# dig @208.67.222.222 outlook.office.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-RedHat-9.9.4-61.el7 <<>> @208.67.222.222 outlook.office.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10464
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;outlook.office.com.            IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
outlook.office.com.     0       IN      A       146.112.61.106

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sun Nov 25 17:44:49 PST 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63

Note that 146.112.61.106 is hit-adult.opendns.com.

Am getting the above results from Southern California.  Not able to
reproduce from elsewhere on the west coast thus far (tried from
Portland, OR and San Jose).

Ray