OpenDNS: Browse the Web faster
ADVERTISEMENTSI decided to try OpenDNS after reading about it on both liewcf.com and paulstamatiou.com. And the result? Better speeds and improved security.
For those of you wondering what OpenDNS is, it is a free DNS service that makes your Internet experience safer, faster and smarter for you and everyone using your network.
OpenDNS has the following advantages
- it is safer: OpenDNS can identify and stop Phishing sites from trying to steal your personal information
- it is faster: OpenDNS server is faster because it has big cache and good network
- it is smarter: OpenDNS makes corrections for common spelling mistakes automatically, that means www.google.cm will be corrected to www.google.com and wordpress.og to wordpress.org.
OpenDNS service is free and makes money by serving advertisements on search results pages when you make unknown typos.
To start using OpenDNS you don’t need any software. Just head to it’s start page where you will be asked to select either your network device or operating system so that they can help you start the service.
One thing that troubles me is that OpenDNS does not work well with Onspeed for me 
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Posted on August 12th, 2006 | Category: Internet |
Jason Drohn
August 12, 2006 at 11:45 pm
This seems much like the Tor program sponsored at eff.org. It is an anonymous internet utility that is beginning to pick up speed. Rather than go initially to a dns, you are bounced around a bunch of servers to ’scramble’ your ip address. It is an interesting protocol. I run a Tor server out of my office and browse on the anonymous network occasionally.
Thilak
August 13, 2006 at 2:30 am
Onspeed works, but put this under your proxy
Host:127.0.0.1 port: 5406
Madhur kapoor
August 13, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Will this work if you browse web through a proxy server on LAN .
John T P
August 13, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Madhur- I am not sure about it as I don’t use a proxy. Try it out and let me know if it works.
You can be sure that OpenDNS was setup successfully for you if http://www.example.cm is corrected to http://www.example.com
Tom Parker
August 19, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Hey John its Tom Parker how are you sorry aint been able to post more been abit busy with things and stuff. I love OpenDNS i’ve had it for about 2 months or so when it first came on Digg its pretty good and its saved my ass with phishing sites
- Tom
PS: Updated my blog last night http://www.tomwrote.info
Srinivasa Ramanujam
August 27, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Wil it work under proxy?
Srinivasa Ramanujam
August 27, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Oh i dint go through ur earlier comment. I’ll check it out.