Comments on: You have a choice in DNS

By: OpenDNS Blog » ISPs who limit DNS changes…let’s talk

OpenDNS Blog » ISPs who limit DNS changes…let’s talk — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:29:04 +0000

[…] We are trying to confirm these reports with the companies so our information is accurate and up-to-date. Inquiries via their websites and support lines have gotten no response, so I am making a more public request, both to the companies themselves and to their customers. I’d rather tell potential OpenDNS customers to avoid frustration than try and help them to no avail after they’ve wasted time trying to choose their own DNS. […]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:03:15 +0000

Well for dial-up here, it’s far faster as my DNS requests are right next-door (Palo Alto) rather than cross-country for CompuServe Classic (Va.). This one goes into my networking black-book, especially for novice setups.

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:20:30 +0000

Mr Skeptical,

I know what you’re saying and we’re definitely working on making it more transparent. I think you’ll see only more and more transparency coming out of us. What we want is to take the black box that is the current state of recursive DNS and make it open not just for you to see us, but to manage your own DNS.

-david

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:05:37 +0000

This is really good in theory. I’m a big fan of everydns and hope you can make something of OpenDNS.

Right now I am finding performance lacking. My local ISP DNS lookups are coming back much faster than OpenDNS (often less than 1ms for local ISP, usually in excess of 100ms for OpenDNS).

I’m almost wondering if the only way for this to work is for OpenDNS to make arrangements with the big ISP’s to collocate servers in their datacenters. Peering isn’t enough; you’ll be adding extra hops and still have the whole pesky speed of light issue to overcome.

By: T. Longren

T. Longren — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:33:01 +0000

OpenDNS: Better DNS…

Wired is running an interesting story on OpenDNS. What is OpenDNS you ask? “OpenDNS makes the Internet experience safer, faster and smarter for you and everyone using your network.” Here’s a peice from the article:
The OpenDNS syst…

By: Mr Skeptical

Mr Skeptical — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:48:17 +0000

Your OpenDNS service might be great but a free (or ad-supported) service doesn’t mean there’s freedom.

How transparent or open is your DNS cache database? Is there a web interface to the database? Is there a publicly accessible log/report of each alleged phishing attempt? Is there a public log of specific DNS changes/updates? Is there a public log of differences between your system and regular DNS? You basically override regular DNS for some sites, e.g. any that are experiencing a phising attempt? How likely are false positives?

To a certain extent it seems like everyone should have this technology directly on their own computer, DNS is (still) too centralized.

-Mr Skeptical