2008/9/10 nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Are there any known problems / gotchas with OpenDNS? I do know that >> they redirect google queries through their own servers and return ads >> in place of unregistered domains, but those 'features' can be turned >> off. Anything else that I should be aware of? > > Of course I'm sure you know that DNS has nothing to do with > ping response times or network throughput. >
I know, but because of the latency I suspect that DNS lookup is at least part of the problem. I put the slow response times in just show how poor my ISP performs in general, which is felt in every aspect of their service. Even a few hours downtime every month is common. > Maybe it's time to get a new ISP. I have 1Mbps/1Mbps ADSL > and it's about 38ms to google, I also have 16Mbps/2Mbps cable > modem and it's about 34ms to google. > If I could test drive every ISP for a week or two and then decide I would, we have three to choose from. However, in my country we pay for the last mile from a different company than the ISP. That is, I have an ISP providing 'net to the last mile provider, and the last mile provider own the connection between myself and the ISP. It generally overcomplicates things and makes a for a ton of problems, not to mention blame for shifting when something is wrong. > If you don't have any other ISP options then perhaps you should > consider moving to a location where there are more options if > internet performance is that important to you. Or perhaps other > options such as T1 lines etc are available at higher prices. > There are other considerations keeping my in the house we just bought two years ago. > I find it funny that so many people out there seem to expect > to be able to get 10Mbit+ speeds for $20/mo. Then they get > upset when they find out the system is 100x oversubscribed > and ends up being slow as hell. You get what you pay for. > Co-workers at my company are all pissed off because one of > the branch offices is off line because the $40/mo DSL line > has been down for days and the provider doesn't have a > ETA for recovery. You get what you pay for. > Actually, we pay almost double that for a 1.5 MB/sec line. At the time, it was from the most expensive ISP but they were great and were worth the cost. And they were not afraid of the L-word. However, they were bought by The Big Scary Monopoly ISP and now the service sucks. However, the prices have changed enough in the market that the price is competitive. I would gladly pay more for a better ISP. > At the same time the company spends about $35k/mo on > roughly 800Mbit of internet bandwidth which comes out > to around $43/Mbit(average across 4 ISPs). Which to me > is dirt cheap, I'm used to buying bandwidth in lower > volumes, and at least from Tier 1 ISPs it's easily $95/Mbit, > and easily double that in Europe/Asia in many cases. > > I read an article recently estimating costs for Verizon FiOS > to be roughly $4,000 per subscriber just to get them wired > up. Doesn't even take into account ongoing bandwidth costs > associated with those accounts. > There was a great discussion on /. recently about this. In fact, that is what got me thinking about OpenDNS and solutions in general. > If you suspect OpenDNS as a problem you can always setup your > own name server(s) for caching requests. I've never used > OpenDNS myself though some systems at my company use it(not > for much longer). I've run my own name servers for about 12 > years now(my authoritative name servers are on my DSL, moving > to co-location this weekend). > I will play with TinyDNS and see if it helps. I mostly visit the same sites and rarely have to experiment with new sites. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
