If you are unable to connect because of DNS problems, switch your DNS server to 8.8.8.8 (Google).
Edit: sorry there, this worked for me but apparently it's not guaranteed.
Edit: sorry there, this worked for me but apparently it's not guaranteed.
They have other IPs as well, but that's what I'm using
But, just to be clear, it's not Google's fault: 8.8.8.8 are not the authoritative name servers for the sites that are down. Rather, Dyn, the provider of the NS is down, and I presume Google (8.8.8.8) is correctly not returning any IP address because the underlying authoritative name server is not.
Presumably Open DNS is working because it's not abiding by the TTL it's supposed to? It's caching the underlying authoritative name server longer than it was told?