On 8/1/09, Remy Blank <remy.bl...@pobox.com> 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)
Which part of the problems he lists are not associated to OpenDNS as well? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS#Privacy_issues.2C_conflicts_and_covert_redirection -- Arttu V.
