Use OpenDNS as your DNS everywhere!

Posted by Martin Perron on Jan 27, 2009 in Featured, HowTo - GeneralNo comments

DNS are the Dynamic Name Server. They are use to resolve domain name as IP.

You ISP DNS may be slow (resolve domain name slowly) so the Internet appear to be slower. Also, DNS from ISP are not being update very quickly, so it can take 24-48 hours to resolve a new domain from there DNS.

The solution? Use OpenDNS! OpenDNS are always up and running, OpenSource for public use and are fast, very fast!

How?
Add these DNS to your router, or connections:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

OpenDNS website:

http://www.opendns.com/

opendns_logo

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS

In July 2006, OpenDNS was launched by computer scientist and entrepreneur David Ulevitch. It received venture capital funding from Minor Ventures, which is led by CNET founder Halsey Minor.

Before 2007 OpenDNS was using the DNS Update API from DynDNS to handle updates from users with dynamic IPs.[1]

On July 10, 2006, the service was covered by digg, Slashdot, and Wired News, which resulted in an increase of DNS requests from just over one million requests on July 9 to 30 million on July 11.[citation needed]

On October 2, 2006, OpenDNS launched PhishTank, an online collaborative anti-phishing database.

On June 11, 2007, OpenDNS started advanced web filtering to optionally block adult content for their free accounts.

In August 2008, OpenDNS provides geographically distributed servers in Seattle, Palo Alto, New York, Washington, D.C., London, and Chicago.

On November 5, 2008, Nand Mulchandani, former head of VMware’s security group, left VMware to join OpenDNS as new CEO, replacing founder David Ulevitch, who will remain as the company’s chief technology officer.[2]

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