using OpenDNS

[rajiv at alum.mit.edu (Rajiv Aaron Manglani)]

>> I was wondering has anyone used or heard of OpenDNS?
>> (http://www.opendns.com/)
>> Is it really better to use it or does it really not matter?... their
>> website says it's a better DNS, so I guess it must be :)
> No, don't use it.  I tried it and what it does is redirect any
> non-existing domain names to their custom pages.  Pretty lame.
> Reminds me of VeriSign 2003 ;-)

that is only one feature (which can easily be disabled). i found that  
forwarding queries to their cache is actually faster than having a  
local bind server perform its own lookups.



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