August 2007 Blog Posts

OpenDNS resolves 300 billion requests, no downtime

Earlier today, OpenDNS resolved its 300,000,000,000th DNS request. That’s two months after hitting 200 billion, and five months after resolving our first 100 billion. In the past two weeks, we’ve been resolving more than 2 billion…

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How to forward requests from Simple DNS Plus to OpenDNS

OpenDNS is a great complement to existing network set-ups. Hearing that others think the same is even better.

Simple DNS Plus is a Windows DNS server for hosting and managing your own domains, among other tasks. In response to…

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Adult Site Blocking has a new category: proxies

Does this sound familiar?

You labor, with the best of intentions, to keep everyone on your network safe and their comings and goings secure, only to be met with successful attempts to bypass your efforts? Well, we have a new…

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Don't want to block everything? Use your whitelist!

When we launched OpenDNS Adult Site Blocking in June we gave you the power to block adult websites with simple categories. However, when blocking categories of sites there is sometimes a need for exceptions; that’s why we’re…

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