Still though if we are currently just using Google's DNS (8.8.8.8), handing out OpenDNS free DNS would be a better solution right? I don't believe Google's free DNS offers any malware protections, but I could be wrong.
If we hand out OpenDNS as our default, then we can advertise to our users that they can go to opendns.com and create a free personal account to filter their home as they wish. Since we would be handing out OpenDNS already, there would be no configuration change needed by the end user on their gateway/router that we already provide. On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:12 AM, John J. Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > As an ISP, you might consider blocking malware sites. OpenDNS used to be > free for anyone that wanted to use it, businesses included, but they > changed their terms of service. What they told us was the free service used > a database that didn't get updated very frequently, and filtered about 5000 > malware sites. When you used the paid for service, there were like 100,000 > malware sites in that database. We met with them awhile back, when they > were still developing their Active Directory implementation. > > On June 23, 2016 12:56:42 PM PDT, 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? >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >
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