Sam,I have been using OpenDNS for probably three years now, but for dienfrfet reasons that what you cite. I use it in order to speed up DNS queries, and to prevent my ISP from easily collecting my data. ISP’s. I have not tried out their filtering, but I can see how that would be useful for families.However, as for business using it:Small business might find use in its filtering, but as it’s a free service with no service-level agreement, if they go down, than you are SOL until they come back online. I imagine most business-grade internet connections do have such an agreement.Filtering web traffic via DNS requests is fairly easy to bypass, and OpenDNS does not have anyway for admins for monitor traffic and punish users for attempted into load prohibited websites. OpenDNS is not a replacement for traffic proxying and monitoring. Running a proxy server allows for much higher granularity than just filtering simple DNS requests.Most government organizations, at all levels, will probably have a legal obligation to use something with some transparency and accountability.They also do some shady stuff with DNS queries involving Google websites. Specifically returning OpenDNS IPs in response to queries for Google websites.What specific problem do you see the use of OpenDNS solving, aside from the Dan Kaminsky DNS flaw?
Sam,I have been using OpenDNS for probably three years now, but for dienfrfet reasons that what you cite. I use it in order to speed up DNS queries, and to prevent my ISP from easily collecting my data. ISP’s. I have not tried out their filtering, but I can see how that would be useful for families.However, as for business using it:Small business might find use in its filtering, but as it’s a free service with no service-level agreement, if they go down, than you are SOL until they come back online. I imagine most business-grade internet connections do have such an agreement.Filtering web traffic via DNS requests is fairly easy to bypass, and OpenDNS does not have anyway for admins for monitor traffic and punish users for attempted into load prohibited websites. OpenDNS is not a replacement for traffic proxying and monitoring. Running a proxy server allows for much higher granularity than just filtering simple DNS requests.Most government organizations, at all levels, will probably have a legal obligation to use something with some transparency and accountability.They also do some shady stuff with DNS queries involving Google websites. Specifically returning OpenDNS IPs in response to queries for Google websites.What specific problem do you see the use of OpenDNS solving, aside from the Dan Kaminsky DNS flaw?