As a temporary workaround for Linode DNS problems, make your servers resolve using Google DNS. You must list Google’s DNS servers before Linode’s.
One way to do this in Ubuntu Linux is:
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Add the following line to
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
:prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
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Reboot, or restart networking:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart