Comments on: CNET Buzz Out Loud talks about OpenDNS

By: Joshua Henderson

Joshua Henderson — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:07:45 +0000

Ya. I heard this on Buzz Out Loud. It is great :).

By: Jacob Levy

Jacob Levy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:51:02 +0000

Here’s an idea: collaborate with Firefox so that it comes with its own dns lookup implementation that uses your service.

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:58:32 +0000

In regards to changing DNS servers on company computers, your instructions may wish to make clear that changing the DNS on corporate computers by non-IT staff shouldn’t be done without permission due to many corporate networks (including any running Active Directory domains) requiring workstations to point to domain-based DNS servers for proper resolution (all kinds of problems including really long waits for computers to log in and many other issues can crop up if the workstations are set to DNS servers that don’t know about the corporate internal servers, I’ve seen this!).

Using OpenDNS as fowarders on the corporate DNS servers for recursive queries should be fine (I’m doing that), except for an issue on your website mentioned about using OpenDNS for mailservers that do RBL checks, which I don’t understand completely but I have a hunch it’s related to OpenDNS not returning not-found errors and instead returning your IP with search results for unknown hosts, which RBLs rely on if I remember correctly.

By: cassandrakuno

cassandrakuno — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:29:30 +0000

this is a good development…
hope it will become the new trend…

By: Scott Fitchet

Scott Fitchet — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:57:11 +0000

I followed the instructions. It didn’t work.

I had to disable, then enable my local connection as well. Now it works.

Good luck!

(linksys wireless-g)