13 Jul
Posted by Harper as Technology at 08:33 PM
Tags: enterprise, opendns, skinnycorp
This is a followup to the post about openDNS from July 10th.
So we used openDNS for a couple days. It worked really well. Then it failed. We were all trying to do something and no one in the office was having DNS issues. So we rolled it back.
I think if there were a couple more servers - or it was distributed a bit more i would be more apt to use it in this “enterprise” way. However, until then it will be on a per-user basis.
So reading about(i say that as if i was puttering about) on the internet about the openDNS thing and it seems that the biggest complaint is that their is one place which desides what is a “good or bad” site. I think that this is a very very valid issue - and one that could be very easy to poison. It would suck if openDNS became wide spread and then an exploit came about to poison the “phishing DB” so that your site was denial of serviced in an ultimate way.
One of my personal complaints about openDNS was the invalid domain page. wtf. everytime i typed in a domain that was wrong i thought that i had hit a spammer page. it was pretty confusing. I guess i was looking for something much more clear.
I would like to see how the openDNS service turns out when you can configure some of these “features” in an openDNS control panel. i think seeing the granularity of the config will really make up my mind.
It is a pretty awesome idea - i plan to hook it up at my moms house. which in my world says something. the mom test is the most important. that is why she has a mac, wears a helmet and is only allowed to leave the house on tuesdays and thursdays (just kidding about the mac mom.. heh).
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One Response
John Roberts
July 13th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
1OpenDNS introduced its preferences screen today:
http://www.opendns.com/prefs/
Pretty simple, to start, but should be useful, and does let you turn off the typo correction (NXDOMAIN treatment).
We’re also improving the search results page you see if you attempt to load a domain which does not exist so that it’s more obviously an OpenDNS served page (it is now, but we’ve heard the logo on the right isn’t obvious to all) and why you got to this page is more obvious, too.
We’re in four locations in the United States. We did have problems in one location (Seattle) for a few minutes on Tuesday afternoon due to a rollout glitch. The problems were limited to the one location.
We have not had any scaling problems, despite the rising usage: http://www.opendns.com/what/stats.php
We’re going to continue explaining more about how we flag a site as phishing and how we avoid false positives.
Keep telling us how we can improve.
John Roberts
OpenDNS