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- MatrimCauthon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17That is Firefox Googling "ebay" and takin you to the first result.
- CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17One of my friends wrote a great article detailing every aspect of the OpeDNS service:
http://www.wyckedone.net/?p=542
It was so good that the OpenDNS team actually blogged about his article. - Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20If it's faster DNS that you're after, try TreeWalk DNS that runs on your local workstation. I use it and have extremely good luck with it. It's located here: http://ntcanuck.com/
- maxdefcon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Here is what I posted in the articles comments:
Kenny (comment # 2) mentioned earlier:
“The only problem is that it resolves domains without any “.com” or “.net” — so say i want to go to ebay and type “ebay” without a .com, I get the ads.
no dice.”
When I type ebay in Firefox without the www. or .com & just hit enter. It takes me to eBay’s website. I’ve been using OpenDNS for about 2 weeks and found no faults. Can’t even notice that I am using a third party DNS. - Avogadro65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Same here. Actually, until I saw this just now, I had forgotten that I had switched to OpenDNS.
- CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Do you even know what DNS is?
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Why am I being modded down for my comment? I'm merely pointing out that a nigerian scam email has nothing to do with DNS and phishing as troydoogle seems to think.
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Agreed. I've always run a local caching DNS server (not that one) on the inside of my NATed home network and redirect all DHCP DNS settings to it instead of my ISPs. I can't imagine doing DNS any other way. I've even set this up for small businesses with constant internet connections and had huge performance improvements for them.
- SirSid, on 05/27/2009, -0/+6I agree with doxx. I think this is a great idea and iv been using it for weeks and I have to say it does resolve faster then my ISPs DNS servers ever did.
- nicko68, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Thanks for pointing this out, I'm going to try it. Modding you back up. :)
- RuBot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Do you even KNOW how DNS works? No, seriously...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dns - caryfields, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's been working great for me. I'll use it as long as its free and unobtrusive.
- CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Every online game I know of uses IP addresses to locate servers. It's just the way it's done, because the game isn't going to do any DNS lookups for you.
- doxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5OpenDNS was created because there is a need for good consumer based DNS. Most ISPs do not give any special attention to their recursive DNS servers and as a result their customers are impacted. The people over at OpenDNS really care about this stuff, why not benefit from that? I much rather use a high quality DNS system than something that an ISP may have forgotten about. Oh yeah, Phishing is gone now too.
- dotdan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The thing is, people aren't forced to use this.
That tends to be a pretty big difference. - RuBot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I really don't want to be trusting these kinds of companys (afterall, DNS servers have been free & non-commercial since grandma's days.
HOWEVER, I'm being forced to use them as my cable provides Insight BB in Columbus OH has very very veryy very unreliable DNS servers. (Insight is on other issues, but this is the basic one) - sandrock, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Agreed. I run a private DNS server on my local network, so I already have the huge DNS cache. Plus I can already spot phishing attempts a mile away. I ping less than 1ms to my DNS server, and over 60ms to theirs. More power to them for setting this up, but its just not for me.
- doxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5OpenDNS is one of the most powerful tools that has come from start-ups in a while. The main idea is that your current DNS resolver sucks! My look-up times with comcast were really bad, using OpenDNS those times went down to nothing. The fact that nasty stuff does not resolve is fantastic for me and my family! If anyone says otherwise, it's because they are doing nasty stuff themselves and don't want OpenDNS to harm their questionable doings.
OpenDNS is first security, second high-quality, and third free. If you have a problem with that, then don't use it. - CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Free != Bad
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -16/+20too bad 419 scams aren't considered "phishing" scams.
- 6nop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Anybody who uses opendns and tries to visit an Akamaized (or other CDN such as limelight) site could be in for some trouble. Akamai maps you based on the ip of your dns resolver, not your client ip.
Some of the problems a user might encounter
- Permission Denied, Akamai might map you to a web server that cannot serve you. Some Akamai web servers are located in ISPs that only allow local ips to connect to it.
- Slower downloads,
- you could get mapped to a server that is close to the opendns server, but far from you.
- If your ISP has akamai servers, you'll miss out on the benefits of having the content local and probably
cause increase in traffic on your ISPs internet connection, which will slowing down everything.
- Looking at their network map, I wouldn't use this service if I was outside of the continential US.
Some Akamai clients include MSFT (software updates), Apple (itunes, software updates), Symanatec (virus definitions)
A better solution (IMHO) would be for local resolvers to use OpenDNS instead of the ROOT servers.
I don't think you want most people changing the dns resolvers they use, its just a support nightmare for
isps. - Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11What the hell? I think people mod ***** down just for the hell of it. I'm pointing out another free DNS service that runs on your local workstation and preface it with "if it's faster DNS that you're after" and point people directly to it....and I get modded down? If the people that are modding me down would please indicate why they're modding this comment down, I'd appreciate it.
- terrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's probably only "Open" in the sense that their service is Open for everyone to use as opposed to most DNS servers which while not usually checking is set up for queries by the service providers users. I think the article is overly critical and kind of missing the overall point. Its not a service for ISP's to outsource their DNS servers, its a service for technically literate people who don't have the resources or the room to setup their own personal DNS services and are dissatisfied with their ISP's mediocre servers. That and the antiphishing might be useful for their moms, dads, and grandmas who really can't tell the difference between some of the more clever phishing emails and will click on a link that doesn't actually go to the legit companies URL. I don't think OpenDNS is meant to be the DNS server for everyone, just some people.
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@jtjdt
Haha....funny you should mention that. It's only red because it makes it easier for me to scroll through comments and submissions to find my own. - doxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow Akamai sucks! Just to be clear, OpenDNS is anycasted so you do use a local resolver and you will be netographically bound to something near your browser and near one of Akamai's less than smarter nodes.
This argument is also really bad because a lot of people use resolvers that are way across the world, and what about VPN's? What about global ISPs that only have a couple resolvers that are far far away from their clients?
If this is truly how Akamai works, and I had content on them, I would be looking for a better solution! - cosmotic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8I tried this service when it was posted on digg. A few days later my internet seemed to go down. It turned out to be the OpenDNS servers not responding to my DNS queries. That's completley unacceptable for a service designed to make things faster. Killing my internet wont do.
- integer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Gregd
if you are specifically looking for comments of your own, you should be able to search the page for your username. most browsers support some sort of "find again" feature.
since usernames are generally links, you can use the firefox type-ahead-find links-only feature. - doxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The speed is impressive, I switched back to my ISP's provided resolvers and it was noticeable in measurements of seconds, not microseconds.
- paddler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When I used Gentoo linux on my Mac mini I had a local caching DNS server running and it was nice and fast. Since I switched to OS X on the Mini the caching server is noticeably slower, down to ISP speeds. Could never figure out why (except that the network stuff in general under OS X seems a tad slower) so I switched to a fast one out on the net. Would love to run one locally but for whatever reason I can't. Maybe after I switch to an Intel Mac in a year or so it will improve...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes but this one got dugg. The bury button is for marking dupes not the comment box.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Adelphia (yeah, laugh all you want), but I was suprised to find after strenuous testing that OpenDNS was significantly slower than Adelphia's DNS slowers. Ping time for Adelphia averaged to 12 ms for 1000 tests, while OpenDNS averaged to 44 DNS for 1000 tests.
Webpages loaded signifcantly slower in FF, which usually loads pages in a flash. In Opera, they would often just time out.
Maybe when it's faster I'll consider using OpenDNS, but for now, it would be a downgrade for me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I used it for a few days, too. Then suddenly my website was no longer reachable through their DNS servers (It's a big auction site -- not anything questionable or anything). Obviously I stopped using OpenDNS since not being able to reach my own ***** website is a little bit of a hinderance.
- smiley2billion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Same here in KY. Insight likes to unplug the DNS server box for some reason. I've used this since the last big rounds it made on Digg and have had 0 problems with it. It brought my page load times way down.
- SmartyMcGenius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Probably by displaying ads on pages that they can't 'resolve' for you. They dump you to an error page and throw some ads on there as well.
- djdigital, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Slowed me down, switched back to verizons DNS, much faster.
- darkened, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use timewarner cable and have enjoyed using this service. I feel this service will eventually offer a very marketable solution to businesses by licensing their technology to real time block phishing and other scam sites and malware/adware etc sites to further go to provide security to the largely computer stupid population.
While this is going to be a bit rougher, there is another way OpenDNS has the option to make money by directly charging advertisers to allow their ads to be displayed. All they would have to do is take say ads.doubleclick.net and point them 127.0.0.1 or even better for themselves an entirely different advertising host altogether.
Obviously this tactic would draw huge criticism from Internet advertisers and potentially civil rights groups since it could then be used to block free speech etc however I seriously doubt the user base will have any sympathy for the banner companies when their advertisements stop working since so many people already use tools to disable them to begin with like Adblock/Flash block with FireFox the whole assortment of pop up blockers etc. So for them to block almost all advertisements to start with then open a trickle of them back up I doubt they'd have many complaints from their users. - jtjdt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's because your Icon is solid Red, and psychologically diggers will automatically want to mod you down, it looks just like the mod down button ;-)
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I seem to be missing something. How would OpenDNS make money?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Do you even know what DNS is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system - gizzymo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2sorry but his comment may be valid if he was connecting to a dns name for a server as opposed to an ip....
- enclave2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its working great for me. I've got it running on my office pc and my home laptop.
- ronmat, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Don´t downgrate-get upgrate! Learn more! Act more! Get more! Like DNS STRINGS! More and better! What-is the sin in life?
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http://www.freeviral.com/?r=220048 - evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"Every online game I know of uses IP addresses to locate servers. It's just the way it's done, because the game isn't going to do any DNS lookups for you."
So, when you type a hostname into your online game, it just sits there and blinks at you? That seems odd, because all of my online games will accept a hostname, do a lookup, and connect me to the appropriate server. Maybe I play higher quality games. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Works great for me. I am happy with it, and looking forward to the advanced features they will be rolling out to let me control more aspects of the service...
And hey... its FREE. Can't complain. - plasmatic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Check out this freedns service: http://freedns.afraid.org/
- apachetoolbox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Didn't even work. if they can't even keep their website up how do they expect me to trust them with my DNS? And to top if off their SSL cert isn't setup right. The CA is DNSAssurance.com but it works on www.DNSAssurance.com without a redirect to just DNSAssurance.com, thats why FF and IE give you an SSL popup error message.
- cheez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1yes, but open dns fixes this ebay.ocm to ebay.com that's not firefox googling ebay
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2DNS is a critical part of the internet infrastructure. As a business owner, there's no way I would use a free service. Check into DNSAssurance.com - it's what Google, microsoft, and yahoo all use.
- fdelucio, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5one typical "please buy me Google!" business
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