nytimes.com — Mr. Ulevitch’s offer is quite simple. People who sign up for his service at OpenDNS.com are promised an easier way to locate Web pages and more protection from people who try to steal personal information from Web users.
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Closed AccountJul 9, 2007
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bigbadaboomJul 9, 2007
I used OpenDNS for a while, but stopped when I had a lot of problems. The typo correction thing was erratic - sometime worked and sometimes didn't. IMO it's not of that much use to experienced net users anyway. The most serious problem though was that addresses would get stale. I found that some pages would not work. Sometimes I couldn't get to a page. Other times the images wouldn't work etc. The problems started getting worse. More and more pages were being affected. Flushing the cache didn't work. I eventually realised OpenDNS were feeding bad addresses. Not just for a few hours either - I'm talking a week or more. For that reason I couldn't recommend them to anybody.
pencoydJul 9, 2007
OpenDNS is not vulnerable to cache poisoning.
thombleJul 9, 2007
David Ulevitch is a megalomaniacal douche. Why are people backing this? He's just using Digg to market his needless service.
daviduJul 9, 2007
That was specifically referring to what's changed in the DNS. :-)
jzp_diggJul 26, 2007
As ever, your RTT to their resolvers will matter, and some "ISP"s can't do basic infrastructure; if so then openDNS is a good thing. If your ISP does decent infrastructure, and/or your RTT iare larger with them then do not use openDNS. Very simple.
adambassadorOct 29, 2007
This is a fantastic service and I encourage everyone to use it. I use it at home not just for fast DNS and error correction but also as content filtering for the whole family. Great stuff! And they have a really friendly staff too!