On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:33:43AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On 08/11/09 12:04, quoth Jason Locklin: > > I would avoid OpenDNS as they break a lot of stuff. If your ISP DNS servers > > are down, I would suggest emailing them. > > > I'm sorry but I switched from my ISP's DNS as my resolver to OpenDNS and life > has generally been better ever since. I found that a major performance issue > for lots of people is that the resolver provided by the ISP is frequently > very slow. I'd like to know more specifics on "they break lots of stuff". > > I'm completely stumped as to what you might have to offer but if there's > something I should know I really want to hear it.
The main problem is that they redirect queries for non-existent domains instead of returning NXDOMAIN. (Although you can turn this 'feature' off I think.) See also the Wikipedia page on OpenDNS: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS#Privacy_issues.2C_conflicts_and_covert_redirection> Regards, -- Jeroen Schot
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