[Dshield] OpenDNS

[WebMaster at Commerco.Net]

Jon,

I guess the first question that I would ask about your post is why 
would you even want to go there?

Most every ISP should have private resolvers their users can use 
directly as a normal part of their business.  Using the ISP resolvers 
is a great idea for home users and smaller non-technical business 
users, if only for the accountability factor.  Setting up your own 
private resolver is easy enough and you don't have to think twice 
about malicious servers which may not resolve in ways you would like or expect.

Now, if you are speaking of a DNS service to provide an authoritative 
answer for your domain(s), then there are several reasonably priced 
and excellent paid services that can back up your own authoritative 
DNS servers or can even serve directly as the responding 
authoritative servers for your domain(s).  Again, setting up servers 
to manage your own authoritative answers is really not all that difficult.

As Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross seem to suggest and from my own 
experience, the best things in life are not always free.

Of course, I could be entirely missing the boat, which is never 
something I dismiss as a possibility ;-)

AlanM
The Commerce Company
TZ.Com - Travel Zippy

At 11:01 AM 2/13/2008, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Anyone have any experience with OpenDNS? Good/Bad/Indifferent?
>
>Would you recommend it as the forwarder for a small or medium sized 
>corporation? Why or why not?
>
>How about a home user?
>
>Also, their site says that they make money by advertising in 
>searches. Does this mean that they hijack searches and insert ads? 
>How does this work?
>
>TIA!
>
>Jon Kibler
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