Laughing Squid - Latest Comments in OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS

sdfsdf — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:16:45 -0000

wroks wrong, www.vimeo.com dont load with opendns.

grrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Zack C — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:35:50 -0000

Never mind...I realized that openDNS doesnt like torrents. i closed my torrent program and everything is up to speed.

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Zack C — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:33:06 -0000

I have Road Runner High speed. I have been getting dns problems all the time and its been annoying. We could not go to any site until we reset the router. Then i started using OpenDNS. So far its been noticibly faster but when it comes time for peak hours like mid-afternoon 3-7, it seems much slower. Also i use firefox and i loved typing ymail or flickr and having the google association find the site, and forward me to it. without loading the google search page. Open DNS sort of overrides that and the only thing you could do is blacklis guide.opendns.com When you do that it will just give you a blank page! so i pretty much lose that feature for good if i use open DNS. I am thinking of switching to another public dns server.

Re: OpenDNS

David Couzens — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:30:45 -0000

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?

Re: OpenDNS

Steve Garfield — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:11:38 -0000

I have Comcast in Boston.

Old:
15,067
2,395

New:
29,813
2,713

Re: OpenDNS

Anthony Hoppe — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:06:19 -0000

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)!

Re: OpenDNS

Michael — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:26:29 -0000

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.

Re: OpenDNS

Esa Loyva — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:43:57 -0000

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.

Re: OpenDNS

davidu — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:00:55 -0000

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

Re: OpenDNS

Nabeel — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:46:55 -0000

I agree with DP, I'm also Optimum Online in westchester, lookups seem slower.

Re: OpenDNS

Michael Carter — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:27:41 -0000

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.

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Hylas Ipsum — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:28:53 -0000

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

Re: OpenDNS

Graham Freeman — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:46:06 -0000

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

Re: OpenDNS

Lloyd Dewolf — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:36:19 -0000

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

Re: OpenDNS

davidu — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:01:50 -0000

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

Re: OpenDNS

Lloyd Dewolf — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:43:04 -0000

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.

Re: OpenDNS

SÃ¸ren — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:36:36 -0000

DNS lookups are 6.5x faster for me.

Re: OpenDNS

SÃ¸ren — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:14:39 -0000

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.

Re: OpenDNS

Lloyd Dewolf — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:27:03 -0000

Hi Steve Collins,
Interesting. Response time relative to what? what do you enjoy about it?

Re: OpenDNS

Steve Collins — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:20:41 -0000

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?

Re: OpenDNS

davidu — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:18:26 -0000

I clearly meant to put "David Ulevitch" as my name.

Clearly low on caffeine. :-)

-david

Re: OpenDNS

davidu — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:16:29 -0000

DP -- Thanks for telling us. We're definitely improving connectivity on the east coast this week and next. Should be a dramatic difference.

-david

Re: OpenDNS

Scott Beale — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:00:46 -0000

Thanks for catching that. I've updated the post.

Re: OpenDNS

dready — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:52:55 -0000

Actually, the typo-correction and anti-phishing features are on an opt-out instead of opt-in basis. I have some technical comments on my blog entry: http://dready.org/blog/item...

Re: OpenDNS

DP — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:35:14 -0000

It seemed like OpenDNS was slower for me. My ISP is Optimum Online (cable), and I live in Westchester County - New York.