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OpenDNS hits 4 billion queries. Woot!

by David Ulevitch on Sep 14th, 2006

Yesterday we crossed the 4,000,000,000 (That’s four billion!) overall DNS query mark.

More importantly, we also crossed the 100,000,000 (That’s one hundred million!) DNS queries per day mark.

Check it out:

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Woo Hoo! 8)

 
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14 Responses

  1. purrdeta

    Yay! Congrats and wonderful service!

    posted on September 14th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

  2. Brett

    Growth has been tremendous; I have been using OpenDNS for several months now with great success. Queries are returned twice as fast as current paid provider. OpenDNS is a great service, with no downfalls. Speed, reliability and only appears when needed like someone mistyping URL etc.

    Hope your growth continues
    Software Engineer in Arizona.

    posted on September 14th, 2006 at 8:57 pm

  3. Scott McCausland

    Spectacular…

    posted on September 14th, 2006 at 9:57 pm

  4. Joachim

    Gratulations. A big succes for you and your partners. There will be another big increase again if London is online. I can recommend your service to other users without hesitation.
    Joachim

    posted on September 16th, 2006 at 1:25 am

  5. OpenDNS 4 at Anything will do …

    […] By the way congrats to OpenDNS in 4 billion queries !!! […]

    posted on September 16th, 2006 at 2:47 am

  6. Aashish

    Is this correct, i see the stats page does not show 5 minute interval graph anymore. Before that it just dropped to zero since 5PM UTC 17th September and now the total requests for the day is shown at 303

    Last 30 Days
    Date OpenDNS System Locations Daily DNS Requests
    PAO SEA WDC NYC
    Sep 17, 2006 303
    Sep 16, 2006 73,876,646

    posted on September 18th, 2006 at 6:26 am

  7. John Roberts

    Aashish, those numbers are not correct. Sometime on Saturday, Sept 16th, stats processing stopped. We’re recovering the stats now.

    For exactly this reasons, stats processing is totally separate from our DNS service — there was no downtime for DNS requests.

    John

    posted on September 18th, 2006 at 8:41 am

  8. Azaroth

    I saw OpenDNS mention on Slashdot about some earthlink issues. Right now I am overseas. (admin can see IP I think)

    The sad, unexplainable thing is, a DNS server (OpenDNS) with these stats:
    — 208.67.222.222 ping statistics —
    4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 162.265/186.446/256.690/40.563 ms

    (160ish ms) ping replying DNS server performs better than my 10-20 ms replying own ISP DNS!

    To make things simple:

    1) I can’t imagine the impact if this system expands whole planet,with max 20 ms responses. The performance increase some USA users seeing must be amazing.

    2) I am afraid to use my ISPs DNS since if it manages to perform that bad with such ridicolously low ping replies: It is NOT managed. It can be a huge security problem. (to get paranoid,search term:DNS poisoning)

    Well congrats of course :)

    posted on September 20th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

  9. Olaf

    Yes congratulations! you free service is much better then most of the DNS servers from ISP’s I used before.

    You’re guys are also very fast with collecting new/updated DNS information great!

    posted on September 21st, 2006 at 2:42 am

  10. John Roberts

    Azaroth (and others interested), DNS speed is a combination of network latency AND software speed/cache. The more locations and better connections we have, the more we can trim network latency. Our software speed and huge cache are what’s overcoming any latency right now.

    We have a full blog post germinating about why OpenDNS is fast, but it’s going to come from David, our CEO, who has more technical details.

    posted on September 21st, 2006 at 10:06 am

  11. Dax Gordon

    I’ve just configured OpenDNS in my home network. Incredible! I’m in Panama city, Panama (that’s far from the US!) and it works much better than my local ISP’s DNS servers. Browsing is faster!!!! Your service is outstanding! Keep it up!

    posted on September 24th, 2006 at 7:43 am

  12. Jerry

    I dont get it, how is this company (opendns) free? Whats the catch?

    posted on October 7th, 2006 at 2:05 am

  13. John Roberts

    Jerry, there is no catch. OpenDNS makes money from advertising, as we detail in our FAQ.

    posted on October 8th, 2006 at 12:50 pm

  14. OpenDNS Blog » OpenDNS serves half a billion queries. w00t!!!

    […] milestone for OpenDNS. We served over 500,000,000 DNS requests in a single day. It seems like just yesterday that we hit 4 billion queries total and 100,000,000 queries per day. That’s child’s […]

    posted on April 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 pm

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