Faster, Safer Surfing with OpenDNS

Posted by ttblogger on 02/15 at 08:00 AM Permalink
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Even with a high-speed Internet connection, you might find that getting to certain Web sites takes a lot longer than you want it to. There are a lot of reasons for this, but one of the bottlenecks is the DNS server that your Internet service provider runs.

You can get around this bottleneck, though, by using a Web-based service called OpenDNS.

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    Posted by Isaiah  on  02/15  at  12:51 PM

  1. Will this service work on a my laptop if I connect to various wireless or wired connections?

    2. Posted by Bones  on  02/15  at  02:09 PM

  2. Great article and good links to get the job done…

    3. Posted by Larry  on  02/15  at  04:11 PM

  3. I tried openDNS awhile back, I even promoted is on my website, after about three month I decided to stop using it because most of the time it could not find the websites that I wanted to access (ex: circuitcity.com, walmart.com etc...)when it worked I noticed a difference and liked the service, when it didn’t work, it was just plain annoying.

    4. Posted by Bruce Epper  on  02/15  at  07:01 PM

  4. Your background on DNS is stated backwards.  A normal DNS lookup translates a string such as “www.geeks.com” to an IP address.  A reverse-DNS lookup can provide a human-readable address from an IP address.  After all, DNS was the logical replacement of the outdated idea of a hosts file maintained on every machine connected to the internet, and that is what used to take a human-readable name for a machine and convert it to the appropriate machine-usable IP address.

    5. Posted by david pritchett  on  02/15  at  08:08 PM

  5. wheres my gateway btx cpu cooler?

    6. Posted by Gajendra Ratnam  on  02/15  at  11:37 PM

  6. Thank you for the article. Sometimes we have a lot of speed problems and we cannot access many International sites. Trying other DNS has helped very much.

    7. Posted by Michael  on  02/16  at  06:43 AM

  7. Awesome!!!

    8. Posted by ERICA  on  02/16  at  07:18 AM

  8. hi i read your article i have a question i bought a netgear router for a old window 98 laptop
    and i try to do the installation on my desktop computer in the first floor but it didnt work
    i follow the instruction cd my loptop alrady has a pc card but i live in a rural area a signal is not good so i bought the router but i need help installing

    9. Posted by Dom Bucciarelli  on  02/18  at  08:49 AM

  9. I’ve been using OpenDNS for almost 2 years now and have never had a problem with availability, and the performance is much better than my ISP’s servers.

    Also, they are very good at preventing ‘DNS cache poisoning’ where someone maliciously tries to insert false information into the DNS system. 

    It’s a great free service: good performance, very secure—I’d recommend it to anyone

    10. Posted by Pedro  on  02/22  at  06:35 AM

  10. Open DNS - I would like to know more about my safty. Does the program register all my keys entry?
    Isn’t a big brother watching you a new way?
    What about my banking password and all other entry - what is the profit for open DNS to work like that?

    11. Posted by Bryan Lambert  on  03/31  at  01:31 PM

  11. Scott,

    Excellant article.  Easy to follow and informative.  I was having issues with my ISPs (Time Warner Cable) DNS server bottle-necking during peak periods.  Since switching my router to the OpenDNS server those problems are a thing of the past.  Thanks!

    Bryan Lambert

    12. Posted by frugal living lover  on  05/08  at  04:31 AM

  12. How do I get rid of OpenDNS?
    I have Mozilla Firefox, and as I’ve been randomly surfing the web OpenDNS has been suddenly opening up. I have never installed it, and in fact, I never even heard of it until it started randomly opening up on my computer. How on earth do I get rid of it?

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