Comments on: OpenDNS http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/ art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:18:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: David Couzens http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-525902 David Couzens Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:30:45 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-525902 Hi All, Ive rolled out OpenDNS to a lot of my customers but today I had a very strange message that appeared stating no webpages I surfed to can be found. the bottom message was a squid error but i dont run squid Do opendns run squid? Hi All,

Ive rolled out OpenDNS to a lot of my customers but today I had a very strange message that appeared stating no webpages I surfed to can be found.

the bottom message was a squid error but i dont run squid

Do opendns run squid?

]]> By: steve garfield http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-525081 steve garfield Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:11:38 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-525081 I have Comcast in Boston. Old: 15,067 2,395 New: 29,813 2,713 I have Comcast in Boston.

Old:
15,067
2,395

New:
29,813
2,713

]]> By: Anthony Hoppe http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-524773 Anthony Hoppe Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:06:19 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-524773 I work for the Menlo Park City School district. We recently were experiencing very slow external DNS lookups. I stumbled across OpenDNS, added their DNS servers to the forwarders list of our DNS servers (removed all others), and BAM! External name resolution is almost as fast as internal name resolution. It has really brought some life back to our tiny T-1 line (which is soon to be upgraded)! I work for the Menlo Park City School district. We recently were experiencing very slow external DNS lookups. I stumbled across OpenDNS, added their DNS servers to the forwarders list of our DNS servers (removed all others), and BAM! External name resolution is almost as fast as internal name resolution. It has really brought some life back to our tiny T-1 line (which is soon to be upgraded)!

]]> By: Michael http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-297401 Michael Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:26:29 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-297401 I have actually noticed a decrease in speed. I have Qwest in Phoenix, AZ. I don't see any reason to run OpenDNS any longer. Firefox delivers all the same features that I would use. Keywords, typo correction, and phishing protection. I have no use for domain blocking at home. I have actually noticed a decrease in speed. I have Qwest in Phoenix, AZ. I don’t see any reason to run OpenDNS any longer. Firefox delivers all the same features that I would use. Keywords, typo correction, and phishing protection. I have no use for domain blocking at home.

]]> By: Esa Loyva http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-269246 Esa Loyva Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:43:57 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-269246 I thought I was going nuts....Firefox would time out before the page started to load, even my emails would sometimes not send before Outlook express timed out. I'm with Telus in BC Canada. A friend told me about the problem dns servers ( he works for Telus as an ADSL service person.) Changed to Open DSN and now pages open almost immediately instead of 30 to 40 secs. Works great Thanks. I thought I was going nuts….Firefox would time out before the page started to load, even my emails would sometimes not send before Outlook express timed out. I’m with Telus in BC Canada. A friend told me about the problem dns servers ( he works for Telus as an ADSL service person.) Changed to Open DSN and now pages open almost immediately instead of 30 to 40 secs.
Works great
Thanks.

]]> By: David Ulevitch http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-234159 David Ulevitch Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:55 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-234159 Hi Nabeel, Thanks for letting us know. If you'd email me a traceroute to the IPs you're using that'd help me a lot. I'm david [atatat] opendns [dotdotdot] com Hi Nabeel,

Thanks for letting us know. If you’d email me a traceroute to the IPs you’re using that’d help me a lot.

I’m david [atatat] opendns [dotdotdot] com

]]> By: Nabeel http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-233551 Nabeel Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:46:55 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-233551 I agree with DP, I'm also Optimum Online in westchester, lookups seem slower. I agree with DP, I’m also Optimum Online in westchester, lookups seem slower.

]]> By: Michael Carter http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-66185 Michael Carter Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:27:41 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-66185 I am using an iMac with Charter Broadband. During peak hours my internet connection was incredibly slow, but with OpenDns, it runs about 5 times faster. I am using an iMac with Charter Broadband. During peak hours my internet connection was incredibly slow, but with OpenDns, it runs about 5 times faster.

]]> By: Hylas Ipsum http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-26030 Hylas Ipsum Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:28:53 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-26030 No worries here, Comcast is our provider and we went to OpenDNS the first day for our business connections (we host our sites here at the laughingsquid). Nothing but BlueSky. Trust? You "trust" Comcast? Man are you in for a suprise. They're screwed, blued and tattooed by the tier 1 SysAdmins they use, I've been looking for a way out for years. We'll see how this pans out, so far so good. Hylas No worries here, Comcast is our provider and we went to OpenDNS the first day for our business connections (we host our sites here at the laughingsquid).
Nothing but BlueSky.
Trust? You “trust” Comcast? Man are you in for a suprise. They’re screwed, blued and tattooed by the tier 1 SysAdmins they use, I’ve been looking for a way out for years.
We’ll see how this pans out, so far so good.
Hylas

]]> By: Graham Freeman http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-25594 Graham Freeman Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:46:06 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-25594 I set up my in-laws in British Columbia with OpenDNS, and we saw an immediate and very noticeable improvement in DNS resolution. Telus, their DSL ISP at their home and at their Vancouver office, apparently has quite slow+unreliable recursive DNS servers. I didn't actually measure anything, but my in-laws are happy so I'm happy. :) Graham I set up my in-laws in British Columbia with OpenDNS, and we saw an immediate and very noticeable improvement in DNS resolution. Telus, their DSL ISP at their home and at their Vancouver office, apparently has quite slow+unreliable recursive DNS servers. I didn’t actually measure anything, but my in-laws are happy so I’m happy. :)

Graham

]]> By: Lloyd D Budd http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-25241 Lloyd D Budd Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:36:19 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-25241 Hi David, It is great if you are positioned to have a global service including local languages. Where your service would be consistently faster than a "local provider" would lead me to complain to the provider. I am sorry, DNS is not magic, and never been a perceived issue for me, particularly not a bottle neck. I have experienced plenty of outages, but I guess I am lucky that it has never been isolated to DNS, Lloyd Hi David,

It is great if you are positioned to have a global service including local languages. Where your service would be consistently faster than a “local provider” would lead me to complain to the provider. I am sorry, DNS is not magic, and never been a perceived issue for me, particularly not a bottle neck.

I have experienced plenty of outages, but I guess I am lucky that it has never been isolated to DNS,
Lloyd

]]> By: David Ulevitch http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24666 David Ulevitch Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:01:50 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24666 Lloyd, There's nothing about us that's US-only (except the language on our website). Networking on the net is a funny thing where network topology and global geography don't always intersect where you think they do. For example, it's likely that folks in Australia would have better connectivity to us in Palo Alto or LA than they would in Tokyo. Might not make sense, but google for "Southern Cross Cables" and you'll start to figure it out. Lots of areas in Africa are on Sat connections that backhaul into the US or Europe. We're in the last steps of bringing up our POP in London which will pretty much give us the European coverage we need. A future site at AMS-IX or similar would just add redundancy (see recent RIPE presentation at NANOG on route overlap between LINX and AMS-IX locations for K-Root). About DNS being slow, well, of course, ymmv. Then again, when your DNS is down, you'll know. :-) Thanks, David Lloyd,

There’s nothing about us that’s US-only (except the language on our website). Networking on the net is a funny thing where network topology and global geography don’t always intersect where you think they do.

For example, it’s likely that folks in Australia would have better connectivity to us in Palo Alto or LA than they would in Tokyo. Might not make sense, but google for “Southern Cross Cables” and you’ll start to figure it out.

Lots of areas in Africa are on Sat connections that backhaul into the US or Europe. We’re in the last steps of bringing up our POP in London which will pretty much give us the European coverage we need. A future site at AMS-IX or similar would just add redundancy (see recent RIPE presentation at NANOG on route overlap between LINX and AMS-IX locations for K-Root).

About DNS being slow, well, of course, ymmv. Then again, when your DNS is down, you’ll know. :-)

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Lloyd D Budd http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24258 Lloyd D Budd Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:43:04 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24258 Strange Scott, I did not see your comment previously. I did give it a try. I did not find any difference, but I never found myself thinking "this DNS look up is slow". I am sure people's mileage will vary. Today, it seems to be a US only solution. I don't see it as competition to browsers at all, but I don't think it is currently a general or practical solution. Though I find it intriguing, the technical details don't really add up to me either. It is not my experience that most DNS servers are slow. Strange Scott, I did not see your comment previously.

I did give it a try. I did not find any difference, but I never found myself thinking “this DNS look up is slow”. I am sure people’s mileage will vary.

Today, it seems to be a US only solution.

I don’t see it as competition to browsers at all, but I don’t think it is currently a general or practical solution.

Though I find it intriguing, the technical details don’t really add up to me either. It is not my experience that most DNS servers are slow.

]]> By: Søren http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24242 Søren Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:36:36 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24242 DNS lookups are <a HREF="http://tongodeon.livejournal.com/500326.html" rel="nofollow">6.5x faster for me.</a> DNS lookups are 6.5x faster for me.

]]> By: IT Blogwatch http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24190 IT Blogwatch Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:37:10 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24190 <strong>OpenDNS opens for business (and Steve Jobs' blog?...</strong> Namaste. This is IT Blogwatch, in which a very boring -- yet utterly vital -- part of the Internet infrastructure gets a kick in the pants. Not to mention The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2...... OpenDNS opens for business (and Steve Jobs’ blog?…

Namaste. This is IT Blogwatch, in which a very boring — yet utterly vital — part of the Internet infrastructure gets a kick in the pants. Not to mention The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2……

]]> By: Søren http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24174 Søren Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:14:39 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24174 The "probably around .002 Meg down improvement" comment indicates you might need to clarify what you mean by "faster". OpenDNS won't increase your internet bandwidth, but it will make web surfing *snappier*. It will resolve domain names into IP addresses faster than letting the requests propigate. MySpace is a particularly good test case: a lot of people hotlink images from websites all over (not to mention the ads) and there could be a few dozen domains to resolve. The “probably around .002 Meg down improvement” comment indicates you might need to clarify what you mean by “faster”. OpenDNS won’t increase your internet bandwidth, but it will make web surfing *snappier*. It will resolve domain names into IP addresses faster than letting the requests propigate. MySpace is a particularly good test case: a lot of people hotlink images from websites all over (not to mention the ads) and there could be a few dozen domains to resolve.

]]> By: Lloyd D Budd http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24094 Lloyd D Budd Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:27:03 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24094 Hi Steve Collins, Interesting. Response time relative to what? what do you enjoy about it? Hi Steve Collins,
Interesting. Response time relative to what? what do you enjoy about it?

]]> By: Steve Collins http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24085 Steve Collins Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:20:41 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24085 I'd argue that the US-centric position put by Lloyd above doesn't hold true. I've switched to using OpenDNS here in Australia after reading this post. Response time on a number of things seems hella fast. I'm with one of the bigger 2nd-tier (and VERY geek-friendly) ISPs here who generally get it all right - Internode (www.internode.on.net). I've never had issues with their DNS, but I think OpenDNS may be somewhat quicker, even from here. David, how about putting a server in Australia? I’d argue that the US-centric position put by Lloyd above doesn’t hold true. I’ve switched to using OpenDNS here in Australia after reading this post. Response time on a number of things seems hella fast.

I’m with one of the bigger 2nd-tier (and VERY geek-friendly) ISPs here who generally get it all right – Internode (www.internode.on.net). I’ve never had issues with their DNS, but I think OpenDNS may be somewhat quicker, even from here.

David, how about putting a server in Australia?

]]> By: David Ulevitch http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24077 David Ulevitch Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:18:26 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24077 I clearly meant to put "David Ulevitch" as my name. Clearly low on caffeine. :-) -david I clearly meant to put “David Ulevitch” as my name.

Clearly low on caffeine. :-)

-david

]]> By: DP http://laughingsquid.com/opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-24076 DP Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:16:29 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/07/18/opendns/#comment-24076 DP -- Thanks for telling us. We're definitely improving connectivity on the east coast this week and next. Should be a dramatic difference. -david DP — Thanks for telling us. We’re definitely improving connectivity on the east coast this week and next. Should be a dramatic difference.

-david

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