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 all from some serious headaches.
Since OpenDNS’s servers are not vulnerable - never were vulnerable, actually - lots of you switched to OpenDNS. That’s the second good thing. OpenDNS is absolutely the most secure DNS service available and the more SysAdmins who choose to use the service, the safer and more secure the entire Internet will be. We want to welcome all of you new OpenDNS users and say thanks for making the switch. You’ve made a good call and we’ll continue to work hard to ensure you enjoy our great service for years to come.
Since you’ve now seen the benefits of OpenDNS, we’d like to invite you to pay it forward by telling other SysAdmins and Internet users about OpenDNS. Please take a minute and use this form to tell your friends and colleagues about the benefits of making the switch. They’ll think you’re super smart for knowing about such a great service, and surely thank you.
Now, all of you new users: Check out this Getting Started task list. OpenDNS is a powerful service will all sorts of awesome features. Have you done all of the items below yet?
- Add a logo and custom message. We let you put your logo and message on the OpenDNS Guide and block pages. You can switch it up and put different messages in different places, where appropriate.
- Set up Shortcuts. No matter if you’re at home or at a large corporation, you can put Shortcuts to great use. They’re like AOL Keywords, but you control them, they’ll work across your entire network and they’re browser-independent.
- Set up Web content filtering. You’ll see in your account that OpenDNS has more than 50 categories to choose from. No appliance necessary and your filtering preferences will take effect in just a few minutes.
There are several more advanced features, too. Poke around in your Dashboard to see all that OpenDNS has to offer.
Again, welcome from the entire OpenDNS team.
himagain
Hmmmnnnn, amazing that us peasants out in the Cyberbog never got to see much about that vulnerability - especially that there was a way around it……… here!
I’m a low-level User with distinct paranoid feelings about security out here and do read a lot and even try to implement measures.
Why are you so hard to find? I wonder…..
Bit like Linux to Microsoft??
Cheers!
Himagain
posted on July 31st, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Dean Boyce
After doing Dan Kaminsky’s DNS server test I found my internet service provider I use was vulnerable. I feel a lot more safer now knowing that I’m not open to this very serious flaw now facing us internet users.
By showing you how OpenDNS made it so simple in how to make a change to my modem settings; I now have my home network secured.
As a signed OpenDNS user, you can have all the added features to block access to certain websites and networks, just makes it even better, more safer in using the internet.
A big thumbs up OpenDNS!
Thanks for having available this fantastic service.
cheers
Dean
posted on August 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
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posted on August 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Enmi
I’m actually kind of surprised that, after a bit of checking and tweaking on my network’s internal systems, Comcast was already using openDNS’s servers instead of anything else!
I’m definitely glad to be using OpenDNS either way, makes me feel a lot safer knowing I have control over what my network has access to… and what has access to my network. o_o
Keep up the great work, OpenDNS!
posted on August 8th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Mike Marcus
Works well and I have more control over where the kids go (this is the home site) without having to put anything on the PCs. Also after Dan’s “discovery” and the sluggishness of some ISPs to implement the “fix” it is nice to have an easy and more responsive alternative.
Thanks Again,
Mike
posted on August 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
hummingbird
I luv open DNS but I am still unable to make shortcuts work in chrome browser
posted on September 13th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
m@cs
Super! Another reason to love OpenDNS!
posted on October 4th, 2008 at 4:36 am