OpenDNS CTO Dan Hubbard appeared on Bloomberg TV this morning to discuss the technology behind Syria’s recent Internet outage. He discusses the likelihood of government involvement vs. technical failure, and shares details…
Today we announced that OpenDNS has brought new datacenters online in Prague, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest, effectively tripling our presence in Europe. Over the past few years the OpenDNS operations team has…
Summer is the perfect time for travel. The kids are out of school, the weather is beautiful, and it’s a great time to escape and get some much-needed R&R. But if your vacations are anything like ours, the smartphones,…
We take our operational excellence extremely seriously. We know that one of the reasons people choose OpenDNS is because they know they can count on us for reliable DNS resolution, something many ISPs can’t promise. And so when…
DNS outages happen everywhere, from Italy to Illinois. And when they do, we can count on people taking to Twitter via their smart phones, to vent, find out what’s going on, and learn how they can get back online (thanks to us!)…
Last night, millions of people across the eastern seaboard found themselves unable to go online and access the Internet. The culprit? A Comcast DNS outage that lasted more than three hours and affected customers from Boston to…
The team here has been hard at work over the past few months getting a new datacenter set up, and I’m happy to report that as of today, our Singpore datacenter is online and serving production OpenDNS traffic. The Singapore server…
Yesterday, the DNS servers of Alice.it, one of Italy’s largest ISPs, went down for several hours. People who rely on Alice.it for their Internet waited. And waited. And then waited some more for their Internet to come back…
This is my first blog post here at OpenDNS, though some of you may know me from answering your support emails. It is not unusual, however, for our own users to sit in the tech support seat themselves and offer help to others…
(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
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