Comments on: OpenDNS Shortcuts - Powering Browser Addressbar http://www.sheetudeep.com/blog/technology/opendns-shortcuts-powering-browser-addressbar/ Expressions Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Pradeep http://www.sheetudeep.com/blog/technology/opendns-shortcuts-powering-browser-addressbar/#comment-104 Pradeep Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:51:37 +0000 http://www.sheetudeep.com/blog/general/uncategorized/opendns-shortcuts-powering-browser-addressbar/#comment-104 Thanks for your reply John and very impressed seeing your enthusiasm to make the people aware of your OpenDNS. 1. You intention may not be to confuse people but they are confused and think it is a open source project. 2. Redundancy is removed in a sense that you cache the information and don't check the other servers for the update unless and until they don't inform you about the DNS change. Check <a href="http://www.nslog.com/2006/11/11/opendns_slow_to_update/" rel="nofollow">NSLog </a> for the reported issue. 3. All the five independent distributed network nodes are owned by same organization which centralised the authority and make it more susceptible to failure. Thanks for your reply John and very impressed seeing your enthusiasm to make the people aware of your OpenDNS.

1. You intention may not be to confuse people but they are confused and think it is a open source project.

2. Redundancy is removed in a sense that you cache the information and don’t check the other servers for the update unless and until they don’t inform you about the DNS change. Check NSLog for the reported issue.

3. All the five independent distributed network nodes are owned by same organization which centralised the authority and make it more susceptible to failure.

]]> By: John Roberts http://www.sheetudeep.com/blog/technology/opendns-shortcuts-powering-browser-addressbar/#comment-103 John Roberts Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:12:55 +0000 http://www.sheetudeep.com/blog/general/uncategorized/opendns-shortcuts-powering-browser-addressbar/#comment-103 Thank you for writing about OpenDNS. About your criticisms... 1. We chose the word open because we are opening up the black box that has been DNS, to make it safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. No intention of confusion with open-source, which we use, enjoy, and have contributed to. 2. OpenDNS doesn't remove any redundancy. In fact, we add to it. We run five independent distributed network nodes, any one of which can operate our service. We follow the global roots; we're a recursive DNS service, so we're not replacing anything except the DNS you get today from your ISP or organization. 3. See my note about the five network nodes: any one or more can go down, and all DNS requests will seamlessly be redirected and responded to at the next closest node. See http://system.opendns.com/ for more details on our reliability. John Roberts OpenDNS Thank you for writing about OpenDNS. About your criticisms…

1. We chose the word open because we are opening up the black box that has been DNS, to make it safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. No intention of confusion with open-source, which we use, enjoy, and have contributed to.

2. OpenDNS doesn’t remove any redundancy. In fact, we add to it. We run five independent distributed network nodes, any one of which can operate our service. We follow the global roots; we’re a recursive DNS service, so we’re not replacing anything except the DNS you get today from your ISP or organization.

3. See my note about the five network nodes: any one or more can go down, and all DNS requests will seamlessly be redirected and responded to at the next closest node. See http://system.opendns.com/ for more details on our reliability.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

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