Comments on: First article about OpenDNS appears in Wired News

By: What’s Wrong With OpenDNS? at T. Longren

What’s Wrong With OpenDNS? at T. Longren — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:36:45 +0000

[...] But, I’m sure these questions will be answered in the near future, after all, today is the company’s first day with exposure to the “public”. There’s already mention of a new feature on the most recent post at the OpenDNS blog. One important feature which is not yet available, but will be soon, is self-service control over the DNS settings. Ryan’s article, understandably, doesn’t mention this capability, since it’s not yet live. [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:14:32 +0000

I’d love to see spyware rendered useless. The host file attack while effective is so much less elegant. Man, there are so many options. I’d even pay a small monthly fee to block porn, spyware, and add sites.

By: Brian K

Brian K — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:31:06 +0000

I started using OpenDNS yesterday and discovered that it is indeed a faster resolver than my high-speed Internet DNS resolver. OpenDNS’s ability to correct incorrectly spelled domain names is terrific and in testing accurately identifies spamming and phishing sites. Definitely impressive. I’d like to see where they’ll take it, such as filtering at the name resolution level to prevent unwanted content from being accessed by children, etc. Once again, impressive!

By: Rohan Pinto » OpenDNS

Rohan Pinto » OpenDNS — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:25:40 +0000

[...] I’m not sure on how far this could be a valid argument, as the openDNS system currently DOES NOT correct errors in the domain name itself, but just in the domain suffixes. As far as typo corrections in the domain name itself but in the domain suffixes. in a recent blog post, it was also mentioned that this service would put “CONTROL” in the users hands. One important feature which is not yet available, but will be soon, is self-service control over the DNS settings. Ryan’s article, understandably, doesn’t mention this capability, since it’s not yet live. [...]

By: Christian Knappskog

Christian Knappskog — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:46:41 +0000

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By: Tom Parker

Tom Parker — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:06:55 +0000

Looks like you managed to pull through the digg effect too

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By: » openDNS, good or bad?·The Techie Blog

» openDNS, good or bad?·The Techie Blog — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:19:22 +0000

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By: T. Longren

T. Longren — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:10:35 +0000

What’s Wrong With OpenDNS?…

OpenDNS is surely going to prove to be a useful tool for those not intimately familiar with the internet. OpenDNS, provides some unique functionality compared with other DNS servers in that it detects typos and prevents phishing. For example, say you…