Firefox won't load google...getting error message

My google homepage will not load...nor can I reach google.com...or search on google.
Getting the following error message.........
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/search?
The following error was encountered:
Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.google.com
The dnsserver returned:
Timeout
This means that:
The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.
Your cache administrator is root. phishing-warning-site.com
Generated Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:12:07 GMT by phishing-warning-site.com ....

There have been a few posts about this today, it appears to be due to problems with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System DNS servers] that you are using either not directing to or blocking Google.
You can change the DNS servers from those that your ISP uses to one of the free DNS servers. One option is to use the OpenDNS servers, for details see http://www.opendns.com/
Another DNS service you can try is the Google Public DNS servers which are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

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