July 2008 Blog Posts

Woo Hoo! 7,000,000,000 requests served in a single day!

Just a quick blog post to recognize another OpenDNS milestone. On Tuesday and Wednesday we served over 7 billion queries in a single 24-hour period. That’s the first time we’ve hit 7 billion requests, and we’re happy to say we…

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Welcome new OpenDNS users

Lots of good came out of Dan Kaminsky’s discovery of a major vulnerability in most of the Internet’s recursive DNS servers. First and foremost, his responsible disclosures and efforts to work with every major vendor have saved us…

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Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day!

While we at OpenDNS dedicate an entire month to showing our SysAdmin love, today is the official System Administrator Appreciation Day. Cheers to all the SysAdmins out there – be sure to enjoy your day!

We asked you all to…

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Managing your DNS has never been this easy!

I’m happy to show off the first phase of our new OpenDNS Dashboard, which we launched today. Today’s overhaul makes the settings area of the Dashboard dramatically easier to use. But first, let me explain what was wrong with the…

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OpenDNS – Keeping you safe day after day

A number of our users have written in today asking if OpenDNS is vulnerable to the recent multi-vendor DNS security issue disclosed today by my good friend and security researcher Dan Kaminsky.

I’m very proud to announce that we…

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Announcing the 2008 OpenDNS SysAdmin Awards

It’s July 1, and at OpenDNS that means opening day for SysAdmin Appreciation Month. If you recall last year we made a big decision: SysAdmin Appreciation Day, which is July 25, is not enough. We need an entire month to show our…

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