OpenDNS free public Domain Name System offers faster site load times
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07-12-2006, 01:25 PM,
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OpenDNS free public Domain Name System offers faster site load times
Quote:OpenDNS says its free address-lookup service makes Web sites load faster, and that it blocks malicious, data-thieving phishing schemes and other threats. Furthermore, the service corrects obvious typos in URLs, sending people to the site they intended to visit, it says. full article: http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6092980.html?part=rss&tag=6092980&subj=news |
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07-12-2006, 09:47 PM,
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Re: OpenDNS free public Domain Name System offers faster site load times
Quote:"A local, well-managed name server with a decent-sized cache will provide better performance, on average, than a remote name server with a huge cache," Liu said. "I also don't want to depend on the networks between me and the remote name server being up all the time." That, and the ads spell trouble. I predict it will have a limit following. |
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09-24-2006, 04:58 PM,
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A Review of the OpenDNS free public Domain Name System
A review:
Quote:There's controversy around OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a for-profit service (it makes money by serving ads on the pages it displays when you make a domain name typo it cannot resolve). Over-aggressive corrections could undermine legitimate, or semi-legitimate, businesses on the Web -- and who's to say if OpenDNS is an appropriate arbiter of what's right and what's not? Some people also doubt that a single company can run a speedy and robust DNS service (as opposed to the distributed network of ISPs, each running its own DNS). UIevitch maintains that if his service isn't run well and fairly, users will simply abandon it -- so he's got a big incentive to make his domain servers do the right thing, and fast... full article: http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6118871.html?part=rss&tag=6118871&subj=news |
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