July 2007 Blog Posts

Winner announced: SysAdmin Challenge No. 4

Hooray! It’s finally here!

We’ve been celebrating all month long, but today is the official SysAdmin Appreciation Day.

The last challenge of the month was to tell us about your proudest SysAdmin moment, a time when you were…

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Power blinks in SF, OpenDNS doesn't wince

There’s a reason we run a ton of servers with a bunch of different Internet providers and put them in a lot of different datacenters. That reason is apparent today as we sit in our shiny new offices in San Francisco and watch the…

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SysAdmin challenge No. 4: "SysAdmin, you're my hero"

There are just over three days left until the big day here in California, and we’re really excited to announce the fourth and final challenge.

We know sysadmins work magic. You know sysadmins work magic. Now it’s time to tell…

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Visualize your DNS with the OpenDNS Dashboard

Our users tell us they want power and intelligence. Or rather, our users want intelligence about their network and the power to make changes.

Today we’re taking it up a notch, turning your OpenDNS Account into a comprehensive…

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OpenDNS Privacy Policy updated

We’re announcing a big update to our accounts system today. The name is changing from My Account to Dashboard to better reflect the services we are providing. A large part of this update includes providing you detailed insights,…

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Winner announced: SysAdmin Challenge No. 3

Our celebration of SysAdmin Appreciation Day continues. Only one week left until the big day, Friday, July 27th. I hope you’ve been planning your gifts for that special admin in your life.

Today, I’m happy to share the winner of…

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Telecom Italia not responding to OpenDNS

(My thanks to Fabio Calvigioni (oRi0n) for translating this post into Italian, below.)

Update: Several commenters say the problem is gone, and that appears to be true. We hope it will continue. – July 23, 2007

We care about…

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SysAdmin Challenge No. 3: A sysadmin walks into a bar...

Last week you proved you’re creative and clever. This week we want to see your funny side.

Every profession has its standard-issue jokes. Among the more well-known are the one about the lawyer and the ambulance:

Q. What do you…

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Winner announced: SysAdmin Challenge No. 2

I thought about summing up this post with a haiku of my own, but this week’s winner is too good to compete with. Huge congratulations to Kirk Friggstad, the winner of OpenDNS SysAdmin Challenge No. 2.

We asked all of you, Kirk…

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SysAdmin Challenge No. 2: Are you a poet and know it?

There are 17 days left until SysAdmin Appreciation Day, which means it time to unveil challenge No. 2.

This week we ask you to go deep inside yourself and find your inner poet. Write a haiku on a topic that is intimately…

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