OpenDNS

NathanE · 2 Mar 2009 at 11:08

This is what their server in London looks like:

Source: http://blog.opendns.com/category/london/

Lumeycom · 2 Mar 2009 at 11:36

Swapped over, not sure how much better it'll be than virgins but cant hurt to try

Wonder how they pay for it?

growse · 2 Mar 2009 at 12:38

NathanE said:
This is what their server in London looks like:

*pic*
Source: http://blog.opendns.com/category/london/

That's six blades though, so I'm guessing they have three live/standby pairs? They won't need a san as local storage should be good enough for caching?

Sp00n · 2 Mar 2009 at 12:56

Been using them for ages, pretty much no problems at all.

Great for blocking porn sites and such for free to!

Rabtech · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:23

That picture is not actually in London as it says further down the blog, however the hardware is the same - those loose cables are connected normally too

After reading the blogs further, they were actively blocking domains that the conficker worm tries to resolve. Very cool for a free service imo.

NathanE · 2 Mar 2009 at 21:43

growse said:
That's six blades though, so I'm guessing they have three live/standby pairs? They won't need a san as local storage should be good enough for caching?

Whoosh

To be honest I'm just an "armchair expert" when it comes to things like servers and sysadmin related stuff.

I would have thought their caching is just all held in RAM though. A few gigabytes of RAM can hold a lot of DNS entries I bet...

bledd · 3 Mar 2009 at 00:11

wow, browsing is noticably faster, on virgin cable

GSDog · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:17

NathanE said:
Go into the OpenDNS Dashboard.

Then select your Network.

Then click Settings on the Network.

Then click Advanced Settings on the left hand side.

Now untick the following options on the list:

- "Enable typo correction"
- "Enable filtering of .cm wildcard"
- "Apply my shortcuts to this network"
- "Enable OpenDNS proxy"

Then click Apply and wait a few minutes for the changes to take affect

Weird... I changed all of those settings weeks ago and it stopped OpenDNS from redirecting to their own search engine when I typed a website name into firefox, but since today it's started doing again, even though the settings are still the same. :confused:

I type "Openoffice" into firefox and it redirects me to; http://guide.opendns.com/?url=openoffice&client=ff20

NathanE · 19 Mar 2009 at 13:50

You must have a dynamic IP address. In this case you need to install their little utility to keep your IP address updated on their servers.