Comments on: OpenDNS – Secure, free, public DNS server

By: Sonny P

Sonny P — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:20:53 +0000

I have never signed up or even knew about openDNS till last friday at 3:30am when I was listing items for sale on ebay.

openDNS started taking the link that ebay calls to display the item information that shows up in the item description area and instead of seeing my description I get their page inserted into the body of the listing with the url that ebay is calling at the top saying that that is a phising link and below that a ad for openDNS and several other advertising links.

I checked other items that were on ebay auction and sure enough openDNS had done it to all of them.

After searching openDNS, ebay I quickly learned that openDNS has blocked eBay users in the UK from even getting to ebay.

news.softpedia.com/news/OpenDNS-Blocks-Ebay-co-uk-as-Phishing-Site-125731.shtml

After a lengthy conversation with the help idiots at ebay I was really frustrated cause they knew NOTHING.

About 4 hours later openDNS went away, I guess on it’s own BUT it probley was able to claim that they had blocked a zillion phishing sites. Great for their advertising, a pain in the butt for us.

Now I noticed that openDNS was not only blocking “phishing” site from my computer but also taking typos and whatever and giving their own page and search engine along with advertising links instead of the standard info page that says the site cannot be found.

guide.opendns.com/main?url=www.classsiccollectibletoys.com#

Having never signed up for this service I am really ticked off. Any ideas on why they are taking over?

Thanks, Sonny

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:50:54 +0000

Use Google public DNS.It is really fast.Before this i was using open DNS 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220,which is still good DNS.

By: Naresh

Naresh — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:02:16 +0000

Zaberdast Solution Thanks alooooot, thank you very much my problem is solved.

By: Zei

Zei — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:59:56 +0000

Come on guys! just use new Google public DNS. it’s fast (really fast), secure (really secured) and reliable (better even best among the others). OK!

use this:

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:11 +0000

I had too many problem with my airtel Internet connection. I setup OpenDNS and all is fixed. Thanks for great service.

By: Moss

Moss — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:21:32 +0000

Servers are very slow in my country about 47 ms. My local ip provider ping is about 20 ms.

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:42:50 +0000

I now prefer to use Google Public DNS instead of OpenDNS. It’s faster in my part of the country! If you have an ISP like Verizon FIOS, your DNS is probably faster than OpenDNS and Google DNS.

By: harjeet

harjeet — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:54:55 +0000

Hi friends, I am using Windows 7 and when I connect to the web, it does not connect correctly and when I try to detect the problem, it shows DNS server not responding.

I tried all those DNS addresses like 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 but they do not work. IP address is 192.168.1.3, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, default gateway is 192.168.1.1.

When I check automatically detect DNS server, then it shows 192.168.1.1 but the result comes same…no Internet. I don’t have much knowledge regarding these issues, but i tried everything I could. Help!

By: cyperrotte

cyperrotte — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:01:25 +0000

Nothing works for me. The DNS servers are not working for me or are out of date. They have worked before, but not anymore! Help?

By: opensat

opensat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:38:12 +0000

I had some DNS problems and using this post helped me to fix it. Thank you author, thank you OpenDNS

I recommend it

By: WatchYourSteps

WatchYourSteps — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:58:02 +0000

Be careful with that OpenDNS.

This is what happens with a regular DNS:
# nslookup
> server 4.2.2.2
Default server: 4.2.2.2
Address: 4.2.2.2#53
> http://www.google.com
Server: 4.2.2.2
Address: 4.2.2.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
http://www.google.com canonical name = http://www.l.google.com.
Name: http://www.l.google.com
Address: 72.14.221.104
Name: http://www.l.google.com
Address: 72.14.221.99
Name: http://www.l.google.com
Address: 72.14.221.103

And this with OpenDNS
# nslookup
> server 208.67.222.222
Default server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53
> http://www.google.com
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
http://www.google.com canonical name = google.navigation.opendns.com.
Name: google.navigation.opendns.com
Address: 208.69.34.230
Name: google.navigation.opendns.com
Address: 208.69.34.231

You are not searching in Google, but in some suspicious-looking man-in-the-middle!!! I would be very careful with those “free” services.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:52:14 +0000

I use OpenDNS myself, but I also use FreeNameServers.co.uk as a DNS backup service for my websites.

It’s free to use.

By: Kalme Ismael

Kalme Ismael — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:00:54 +0000

OpenDNS was good until the Yahoo buy up. After that, OpenDNS has become (oddly? not.) haphazard at best for googlites (homepage=google, gmail, gdocs, etc.), unless you want to sign up for the “free” OpenDNS services. Blocking? Via your DNS? Please, anyone with the most limited research ability can spend 5 mins in an internet search to learn how to bypass.
OpenDNS is intentionally interfering or blocking Google access. This is “why” the Yahoo redirect for failed searches. Go ahead, use your favoured search engine and look it up yourself. Oh, unless that’s Yahoo. =\

By: kyanh

kyanh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:54:44 +0000

I think that you can change this settings

By: Moyra J. Bligh

Moyra J. Bligh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:14:46 +0000

When it can’t find the dns for the domain it redirects you to an useless Yahoo! search page. I find this unacceptable and offensive. I do not want to be redirected anywhere if the site does not exist, too much potential for fraud. I just want the error message that a browser would normally give, I find that much more useful and informative.

Until and unless they change this insecure and offensive practice, I will *NEVER* use this service.