Open DNS

[ZeeBee]

Hi does anyone know if Open DNS is any good or not? For instance is it safe to use and does it increase net speed and security a lot? The web page says it does but I was looking to hear from people who have used it before to get more information on it.

http://www.opendns.com/

Thanks in advance for any feedback

ZeeBee

[RJGoodhouse]

Yes, OpenDNS is a very good web site, the best for parental Controls also. They have both Free Service and paid Services, depending on the level of control you want.

[David H. Lipman]

It's buggy. It has deemed legitimate sites as malicious. When you try to go to a false flagged site you get an OpenDNS warning page. If you contest it you can send them an email and it can take a minimum of 72hrs to resolve the issue. I ran against that using the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg's malware analysis sandbox. Not a malicious site, a White Hat site for automated malware analysis. That's why I stopped using it in 2010.

Personally, I use GTEI and Google DNS servers.

This site lists Public DNS servers

http://theos.in/windows-xp/free-fast-public-dns-server-list/

[Firefox]

Another alernative is using Norton DNS you can read about it => HERE and its free for home users.

[DarkSnakeKobra]

I've been flopping forth on this myself a bit. It seems okay, but one thing that really bugs me is the unavailable page with search results when a domain is incorrectly typed and not found. If I wanted to search I would have just googled it. It's so so.

[TruthRealm]

strongly recommend Google's public DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (...and their IPv6 equivalents!)

usually when configuring customers' computers I configure their static preferrred DNS servers as follows;

[Google public]

[iSP]

[openDNS]

...repeat...