OpenDNS and these forums

I've been using OpenDNS for a few months now, and ever since I started using it, multiple times per day when I'm on these forums, Safari will spin its wheels for a minute and then an OpenDNS error page will come up. If I just hit the back button and then click the same link a second time, it'll load just fine.
Is anyone else seeing this sort of thing? Is it a problem with OpenDNS or with the forums?

Click on TCP/IP and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' enter the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 /
Open DNS also provides an anti-phishing feature: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/anti-phishing/ )
Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS

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    ali brown wrote:
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