Tarun Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 OpenDNS makes the Internet experience safer, faster and smarter for you and everyone using your network.Safer - OpenDNS can identify and stop sites trying to phish (steal) your personal information or money. The OpenDNS phishing protection works with all operating systems and browsers, and complements any other security measures already in use, such as a firewall and anti-virus software.Faster - Most DNS servers on the Internet are slow. Your computer uses DNS every time you visit a website or send an email, so you want DNS to be blazing fast. Two things make DNS really fast: a big cache and a good network. We have both.Not to brag, but OpenDNS caches are really big.The bigger and better the cache, the fewer steps in the process, and the faster the Internet experience. Making the OpenDNS caches really big is part of how OpenDNS makes the Internet faster.Speed really matters. You make hundreds of DNS queries a day and every delay adds up. We built our network of OpenDNS caches at the major intersections of the Internet. This keeps us close to you, improving performance.Smarter - We make corrections for common spelling mistakes, on the fly. That means when you are typing fast and type yahoo.cmo instead of yahoo.com you still get there. No annoying pop-ups or evil spyware installed because you made a typo. Things just work.Other benefits - OpenDNS service is free. OpenDNS makes money by serving clearly labeled advertisements on search results pages where we cannot resolve your intent (i.e., not a known typo).There is no software to install, so no switching cost and no lock-in. OpenDNS is easy to start using. We're confident you will prefer our service, but it's easy to return to your old settings.OpenDNS is not an ISP or web host or registrar. We're not ICANN. OpenDNS doesn't proxy or monitor the websites you go to. Read our privacy policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Nothing much special, just free alternative DNS servers...I wonder if they're really in sync with the main ones though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 N00b question: will my IP be static even if I connect through dial-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendrag Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 unlikely... dial-up IP's tend to change everytime you dial-in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 He says they're not an isp, so they wont be giving you an IP address, just DNS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 He says they're not an isp, so they wont be giving you an IP address, just DNS.bummer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 (edited) Here, try some of these DNS servers:4.2.2.14.2.2.24.2.2.34.2.2.4 Edited November 3, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 So LLXX where did those come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 Those are old generic DNS server IPs. They were first with AT&T and slowly spread out.The ones offered in the original post offers Anti-Phishing and better speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I use Dyndns.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 The ones offered in the original post offers Anti-Phishing and better speeds....and if they're blocking sites and trying to "correct" DNS queries then I'm definitely not going to use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtis Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Well, even your ISP blocks some sites and fair play with him serving advertisements on un-routable addresses, everyone needs to make money to run their service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 (edited) I use Dyndns.orgAre you subscribed to their Recursive DNS?The ones offered in the original post offers Anti-Phishing and better speeds....and if they're blocking sites and trying to "correct" DNS queries then I'm definitely not going to use them. You can turn off their "features" and use only the DNS portion.Personally, I use OpenDNS. Edited November 14, 2006 by jcarle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 (edited) Well, even your ISP blocks some sites and fair play with him serving advertisements on un-routable addresses, everyone needs to make money to run their service.That's why I use the 4.2.2.* servers. Those are pretty much "official" and don't block anything as far as I could tell. Best solution short of writing your own recurser to retrieve data from the root servers. Edited November 15, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 What advantage do you get from using 4.2.2.x servers instead of your ISPs ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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