On 06/07/2011, at 11:00 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > Yes, I have to agree. > > I have used OpenDNS for quite some time now – started when there was a DNS > security scare some time ago – the scare soon came & went as the ISPs got on > top of it but I left it set up with open DNS anyway. It occasionally refuses > to load some sites which are on some phishing/scam type blacklists and > offers some tools when sites refuse to load.
OpenDNS is a great tool, as I Google DNS. But using a server other than your ISP's breaks content delivery networks quite badly. As an example, I was downloading "something large" from a special Akamai-hosted Apple server and was only getting about 200Kbs. This is FAR below was I would normally expect from a server that is sitting someone on the iINet network. The problem was that a few days prior I had hard-coded my DNS server to Google (8.8.8.8) to do some tests. Once I realised this, I returned my DNS to the appropriate setting and my download came through at about 5Mbs. So that's the catch for Telstra/Optus customers now. Use Telstra/Optus DNS and have your connection politically censored or use third part DNS and receive a sub-par service when viewing anything on a content delivery network. - Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
