OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster Internet

Anyone actively using it? Seems to offer a good set of features.

I see it's been mentioned a few times on here.

Steve

what would be your reason for using it? I could see it being usefull for webservers where the ISP may not be very good. but from a client side I can't realy see it being of a hudge benafit.

I wondered whether people had found it beneficial over their ISP's own DNS servers. Also in terms of filtering, and protection against phishing and other such attacks - in-built monitoring for Conficker threats being one example.

Steve

maybe, but onc you have visited a website your machine caches the IP and will refresh it depending on the TTL value of the DNS A record.

as for phising.... if you have a decent ISP then they will have this already.

At the end of the day the DNS server you do your lookup on gets the records that are not in its Zone, from root hints, these are the same servers all over the world.

it might be good for a hosted doamin using Dynamic DNS. But you would have to test it realy.

As a matter of fact i started using it yesterday, purely because the Balls-up in London tooks out our primary Internet link *and* the ISP DNS by the looks of things.

yea that would be another good thing to use it as a backup,

After looking at it a bit more it seems to do a lot of web filtering. That would be a good advantage of using it, They also claim to stop record interception, so when your waiting for the DNS server to return an IP somtimes it can be manipulated by nasty people to take you to random sites that could not be what you think. example if you type in hsbc.co.uk you might be taken to a site that looks like hsbc but isn't and will record all the informaton you put in.

Like i said I think it would be good for larger companys.

Edited 7 April, 200917 yr by phil_monk

I use it at both our office and home. I know that my ISP does not offer any of the filtering openDNS does so where is the harm? It a 10 second change to your router config and you have that extra piece of mind.

It also means i can block things at the office.

I use it at home as the BT dns servers are flakey at best...

only annoying thing is their habit of "hijacking" pages that it thinks dont exist, rather than a 404

I've used it for ages. It is faster than my ISP's servers, plus I can block all the nasty things. The 'Shortcuts' feature is nice as well.

Thanks for the info guys. Will give it a tryout I think

Steve

I use it at home, and have an account with them, you can get all sorts of graphs and stats from them too.