July 2006 Blog Posts

More instructions for changing your DNS settings

When we launched three weeks ago, we had a reasonable cross-section of instructions for some of the most popular routers and operating systems. We knew, of course, that there are many, many different devices and scenarios, and…

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OpenDNS out loud: two audio clips

For the audio-inclined, I wanted to share with you two recent clips about OpenDNS.

The first is an interview of David Ulevitch by Mark Howson of The Mac Nurse, conducted via Skype on July 20. The interview runs a bit over 14…

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Shadowserver add EveryDNS to Hall of Fame for fighting botnets

In his June post Why I Started OpenDNS, OpenDNS founder and CEO David Ulevitch explained how running EveryDNS taught him a lot.Spammers, Phishers, Botmasters and other Internet Bad Guys use DNS as a vector for running their…

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Catching up on stats processing (and more)

If any of you look at our stats page as often as we do you might have noticed that the weekly graph was a bit wonky today and that we (temporarily) dropped the daily graph. I put a note up on the stats page explaining it but I’m…

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Debian Administrator? Come work for OpenDNS!

Update: The position has been filled! Thanks for sending in all the resumes. Good to know lots of folks love Debian as much as we do.

Think you’re elite? Come work with some multi-talented and brilliant folks as our new…

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How OpenDNS learns about phishing sites

Phishing prevention is not a “fire and forget” task. You have to make sure you have great data, double-check the information, and update the data to avoid “false positives.” And you have to do it all the time.

Different folks…

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One week of listening and learning

One week ago, OpenDNS opened up its free DNS service for everyone to use. It’s been a fun week, with lots of feedback. It’s great to be listening to customers, rather than predicting (guessing) what the reaction will be.

We’re…

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CNET Buzz Out Loud talks about OpenDNS

Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont from CNET Buzz Out Loud took a few minutes on Monday to talk about OpenDNS.

Listen to the brief clip about OpenDNS (3 minutes, 10 seconds long; 1.5MB).

Thank you to Tom and CNET for permission to…

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First article about OpenDNS appears in Wired News

“Site-Lookup Service Foils Fraud” is Ryan Singel’s Wired News writeup about OpenDNS. Ryan and Kevin Poulsen, senior editor at Wired, publish 27BStroke6, a blog about security and privacy, so they grokked what we’re doing –…

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You have a choice in DNS

I’m inspired by Simon Phipp’s post “Freedom to Leave” [via Tim Bray]. Simon’s talking about the openness of technology formats and standards, and reminds us all:The fastest way to send early adopters packing is to make your cool…

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