Comments on: SmartCache: the best reason yet to switch to OpenDNS

By: OpenDNS Blog » How SmartCache could have saved Germany

OpenDNS Blog » How SmartCache could have saved Germany — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:22:17 +0000

[...] year we introduced SmartCache, an OpenDNS invention and one of the most significant innovations the DNS has seen in its 25+ [...]

By: raymond

raymond — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:14:16 +0000

Great feature from the great company.

At last it offer to everyone even a Free user like me .

By: King

King — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:13:02 +0000

Great Hope we have opendns here in the philippines or in japan or hongkong or china.

By: Alexus

Alexus — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:14:56 +0000

OpenDNS is great !

i prefer it to everyone

but someplayers dont understand it because the cant english.

can you translate this site to german,sspanish,turkish …
it would be great if you can !

By: lastminute reizen

lastminute reizen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:42:38 +0000

Great feature. Is this part of the RFC for DNS and how does is relate to negative cache?

By: OpenDNS SmartCache | Security

OpenDNS SmartCache | Security — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:00:38 +0000

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By: OpenDNS Blog » Introducing Best Path Networks

OpenDNS Blog » Introducing Best Path Networks — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:33:09 +0000

[...] more intelligent, provided you a better DNS than that from your ISP and delivered innovations like SmartCache and Conficker protection. In short – as a company and as a community we’ve built something [...]

By: Matthew Elvey

Matthew Elvey — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:05:40 +0000

@Joseph: Cool. Of course, be sure to determine what the problem is and whether you need to do anything, as most folks don’t use OpenDNS, and the site remains down for them when SmartCache keeps it up for you.

I’m curious what the problem was; is GoDaddy’s DNS still unreliable? I did read that their DNS servers were down for a while back on Sunday, March 11, 2007, because GoDaddy did not address problems resulting from the new Daylight Saving Time scheme even though customer complaints about the un-fixed problem were noted by executives who said they’d been addressed. They still haven’t learned a lesson?

By: Joe Sniderman

Joe Sniderman — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:35:57 +0000

Ok, this I definitely like the sound of.

For a long while I was running my own nameserver in my living room, due to my ISP’s nameservers being less than reliable. I had it set up to use the root servers and then recrusively resolve the lookups. This worked great, except for in the types of situations smartcache addresses: SERVFAIL on the authoritative servers. ( which seems to happen more often than i would like )

While it would technically be possible to impliment something similar at home, it would be pointless to do so. Since I am the only user here, any domain I myself hadn’t looked up recently wouldn’t be cached. With OpenDNS, everyone benifits from everyone else’s usage.

For now, I’m using OpenDNS.. What I may do later is have my nameserver in the livingroom, but set OpenDNS nameservers as the forwarders.

To be fully honest I’m not a big fan of the ‘Guide’ page and whatnot (personally i would rather just get NXDOMAIN if the domain really doesn’t exist), but at this point the pro’s outweigh the cons.

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Slow Browsing on 1mbps Connection - Broadband Forum India — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:22:16 +0000

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