On Saturday 01 August 2009 19:03:49 Remy Blank wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: > > > > 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) > > 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to > > advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... > > 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every invalid address resolve to an > > address anyway, which when viewed in a web browser goes to an "error" > > page (full of advertisements and "sponsored links"). You never know if > > a hostname is really invalid or not, which makes troubleshooting > > non-HTTP connections interesting. > > Time to switch to http://www.opendns.com/ ? > > (I haven't used them, but they seem to be recommended a lot theses days)
<side comment> Paul's post tells us who his ISP probably is :-) What they do makes my blood boil - if I tried a stunt like that with my DNS caches, I'd be frog-marched out the door with bangles on in about 30 minutes flat. I'd let you use my cache network with pleasure, but there's ACLs in place. In other good news, I've also heard good things about opendns, I recommend Paul gives them a try if he can. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
