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- Wolfman~K, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40I switched my DNS settings at work and home to them, Its a noticeable difference in speed and the auto correct feature is amazing. Amazing service.
- SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Except that this will work for any DNS query. Email software, Jabber server shortcuts, even for ping (might not be so useful, but it works).
Also, OpenDNS is great for its features, speed and reliability, as the person you replied to said. - davidu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Str3ama -- Actually we're not doing what AOL did. We're letting you do what AOL did. Shortcuts are in your hands, and they are damn handy. :-)
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25@ToMZiLLA (#6308020)
Countdown until Google buys OpenDNS - WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17This is awesome, now instead of typing digg.com, all i have to do is type digg!
THE ADDRESS BAR IS USEABLE AGAIN! - doxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16OpenDNS is faster than my ISP's resolvers.. it's a must have on any network.
- stang966, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm so tired of platform deist services, thank god this one is agnostic!
- ToMZiLLA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12countdown until Google offers DNS service
- AMSRay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+91) OpenDNS has very simple instructions for most OS's and home routers.
2) Why add other steps
3) Auto complete is not search
4) You have to set it up, it's not automatic. And there are other browsers (even though Firefox rules)
5) See #4, you have to set it up that way.
6) Open DNS gives you anti-phishing protection
7) If you have a laptop and you access the internet from a lot of providers, you can have one reliable DNS source. - davidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7bmnrocks --
1) welcome to google, stumbleupon, your ISP, and a host of others who actually care about the sites you visit (unlike us, who don't).
2) Who's your ISP? Where are you located? We could definitely be slower, but we rarely are.
3) Sorry that irks you...
4) s/fishing/phishing, but okay. You know we run phishtank.com which is pretty much the most authoritative source of phishing data on the Internet? Opera is using it. So is Yahoo mail. It's all free and available for use. Mozilla has tested code with it.
5) Umm, yeah. Most people like things like google and yahoo too. What do you use?
That's okay, but at least have some good reasons. :-) - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11@shak (#6308042)
Yes, everyone has stopped using hosts files, right around 1984 when DNS was created *because hosts files are not scalable.* - davidu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@Nougat yes, it still works when used as a forwarder.
- acdcfanbill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I just set my google search in firefox to use the 'im feeling lucky' url, and then i can type things like 'google "some guy"' or 'imdb this movie' and it works good for me.
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow.. I'm impressed. I am on a university network and this has really sped things up... definitely digg worthy
- sid0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hi David! Great work you've done with OpenDNS. Thank you.
- sid0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A great thing about OpenDNS is that they've made easy-to-use guides for all major OSes, available at http://www.opendns.com/start/
So there you go.
(They also list the DNS servers on the home page, for those who know how to get around) - davidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You are asking a couple questions in one... just got back from lunch but I'm happy to answer.
We do preliminary preferences based on src_addr of the request. That means for our >1,000,000,000 requests a day we do some analysis on every single request. - Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Usually we have to settle for browser and platform independence, but agnostic, that's a whole sort of mind blowing depth right there man.
Did Oprah start a popular word club or something? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But how does OpenDNS plan to make its $$$?
Just asking. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@davidu (#6304888)
Since you appear to be responding on behalf of OpenDNS, let me ask: if you're using OpenDNS as a forwarder on an internal DNS server, and all your internal clients point to it, does this still work for those clients? - sid0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For dynamic IPs, you'll have to download a small program (available on the site) and keep it running, so that the IP is updated on the OpenDNS server every time it changes. Pretty simple to manage.
Of course, you can use account-less preferences without registering -- but then you won't be able to use features like these. - mweels, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I like OpenDNS because of the speed!
The value they are getting out of it, is a lot more beyond what we can see. - CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not on my network .. Then again , that's because my ISP runs a fast quality DNS service and because OpenDNS is further away.
Still a cool service for those without a quality DNS provided by their ISP. - winnopeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This story is a duplicate...
http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Open_DNS_Feature_Tomorrow_Shortcuts - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@str3ama (#6303453)
This is somewhat similar to what AOL had/has with their keywords, though you'll recall that AOL keywords only take you to sections of the AOLosphere, not the internet-at-large.
The way this is different and better is that, as the summary says, it's platform and browser agnostic. All you need to do is use OpenDNS for your DNS servers.
As for you being able to do this with Firefox - good for you. The rest of the world does not have access to your custom-made Firefox browser shortcut keywords. - JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@manish22 (#6308156)
i think you can with this service. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[quote]OpenDNS is faster than my ISP's resolvers[/quote]
It's faster and apparently doesn't censor domains. My ISP uses a very annoying 404 redirection service, with OpenDNS I can avoid it and I can see all domains as intended. - Timmmm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Still, none are as good as konqueror's web shortcuts:
imdb:some film
gg:search google
ggi:google image search
dict:dictionary
wp:search wikipedia
...and so on. You can easily add your own. I usually add fb for facebook searches. - sid0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a VERY informative error message at the top of the search page for an invalid domain.
By design, it *shouldn't* change example.com into www.example.com -- they may actually be two different sites. What I have noticed is that if I don't put in the 'www' where it is required, OpenDNS suggests the site at the top of its search page. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bmnrocks (#6310033)
1. Another company that knows what websites I visit.
You're getting your DNS queries from somewhere. If someone wants to know what you're asking for, they can know already.
2. Wasn't any faster then my ISP, actually a tad slower.
You've got a good ISP then.
3. Doesn't translate 'example.com' into 'www.example.com' which really irks me.
This has to do with the DNS A or CNAME records configured by the owner of the 'example.com' domain, nothing to do with the DNS server.
4. The fishing protection is nowhere near as good as what is/can be built into your browser.
Every little bit helps. Besides, redirecting you away from the site completely is better than your computer receiving data from the offending site, then the browser blocking it.
5. Instead of an informative error message, you get their lovely search engine that they are making money off of by providing you results.
That's why it's free, and you *will* get the informative error message *if the site exists.* The only time you get the OpenDNS search page is when the URL doesn't resolve to any IP address. - AUniqueName, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@CeeJayDK
Are you assuming your ISP's dns servers are fast purely by their ping times or by the response times of actual DNS queries? Keep in mind that fast pings do not necessarily mean fast DNS replies. - davidu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4No, it's not. It's not like RealNames either. :-)
- HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does anyone know if there's any performance improvements by using OpenDNS instead of the DNS servers that VirginMedia(UK company) uses?
Also, do i enter the IPs in my static connection pop in WinXP, or in my router( running DD-WRT ) ? - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@warpfox (#6308083)
Or, instead of typing digg and hitting Ctrl AND Enter, I just have to hit Enter. What a time saver! - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@warpfox (#6308083)
Or, instead of typing digg and hitting Ctrl-Enter, I can type digg and just hit Enter. What a time saver! - doubleblack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty good idea if you ask me, but bad implementation - and it DRAMATICALLY increases the speed...for me at least...
- digitarius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I set this up on the router for my family. Between OpenDNS and mixing up some of the open custom HOSTS files out there, I'm doing my best to keep them out of trouble.
I also blocked guide.opendns.com on my HOSTS file. :D That way I don't get their really annoying search page! - mweels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
I think a good way- is to track where everyone is going and sell the data to people who want to see it.
Secondly, they are getting paid big time when you enter keywords and it goes to yahoo's search.
Those are just two revenue models I can think of at this point - I'm sure there are more. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's not a particularly new term, people have used it for years.
- Shak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Has everyone stopped using hosts files? Albeit you can only point to an ip address in the hosts file, its definitely the quickest way since the file is local.
I've been using opendns for about a month now and I really don't notice any speed difference. I was using FIOS's regular servers before hand, so maybe they are both just as fast. Either way, I think i'll be sticking with OpenDNS just for the statistics. That, or someone releases a network statistics tool :) - str3ama, on 10/12/2007, -23/+24so they're reintroducing what AOL had years before? Not to mention, that I can do the same thing with Firefox (bookmark a site, right click on bookmark>properties>under 'keyword' enter a word you want to use to describe that site like "news" then click ok and enter your keyword in the address bar and it goes there automagically.)
- h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a difference between "solutions" and "useless spam", dillhole.
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@str3
+digg for automagically.
Did you happen to see the mike meyers videos? No, not that mike meyers. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@clesch (#6309491)
Guess what - you are already putting every single URL you visit into the hands of someone else - even if you're running your own DNS server. Unless you run a root server, and even then, the root servers don't hold DNS records for every URL.
DNS is a distributed infrastructure. DNS servers talk to each other all the time to get records from each other. Also, internet DNS servers are well-protected against cache pollution - where someone tries to inject false records. Not to say that it could never happen, but it's quite rare. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@manish22 (#6308156)
Well, if you are on a Windows domain, and you're accessing your internal hosts with FQDNs, then you need to be pointed at an internal DNS server which all the internal machines are registered with. *That* DNS server can (and should) use OpenDNS as a forwarder. - salinemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Volume silly.
- bmnrocks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Downfalls:
1. Another company that knows what websites I visit.
2. Wasn't any faster then my ISP, actually a tad slower.
3. Doesn't translate 'example.com' into 'www.example.com' which really irks me.
4. The fishing protection is nowhere near as good as what is/can be built into your browser.
5. Instead of an informative error message, you get their lovely search engine that they are making money off of by providing you results.
No thanks, I will pass. - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"No no no. Never use hosts files unless your life is at stake. Hosts file compatibility still exists, yes, and it will work on a small scale, yes, but it's never the correct solution. Never. Ever."
Whatever dude, it works a hell of a lot better than OpenDNS's solution.
I tried it and the shortcuts kept sending me to the wrong place. -
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