On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote:
> What dns name solvers do you use to hand out to your customers via DHCP > and why? Today we just hand out Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as a name > resolvers. I recently learned about OpenDNS's free service for homes where > a home user can monitor and potentially block certain websites, but that > would require the home to signup at open dns, and then enter open DNS in > their router. However if we handed out OpenDNS's IPs instead of googles, > and provided a gateway, then that would remove that step of the client > having to enter opendns IPs into their router right? > > Does OpenDNS have a service for ISP's? That gives us insight as to where > traffic on our network is heading based dns lookups? I know about Netflow > etc, but doing this though DNS seems like a cool option as well. We > wouldn't want to block anything as an ISP, but it would be useful to know > the top visited site by our customers is facebook.com for example. > > If not OpenDNS, then is there some other hosted DNS service for ISP's? > > Self-host your own Unbound servers, use that as cache to a hosted DNS service like OpenDNS, Symantec or other already blocking security threats but letting personal content decisions up to the subscriber. Rubens
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