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To those using Open DNS - Did you set up an account?

aphex

aphex

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I've been happily using open DNS for the past few months, but one thing bugs me.

Previously in Firefox, I was able to just type 'cnn' (or the like) in the address bar, it would query google and just send me along to http://www.cnn.com

With OpenDNS, it sends you to their search page with their affilliate links, where you have to click on CNN to get it to load.

Obviously they do this to keep the whole service running for free, but was curious if creating an account with them allows you to adjust this behavior. Anyone created an account with them before?
 
When you create an account you are able to set words that will send you to a certain website. So you can set "news" and you type it into the Address Bar and it will send you to msnbc.com or whatever.
 
there are firefox plugins to get it to let you control how searching is done.. and in 3.x you also have the search dialog on the toolbar that can be set to use almost any engine you want...

IDK why anyone would want a DNS system to *forge* results for them just for the purpose of searching for something. I'm not happy unless my DNS returns: invalid domain for anything I mistype. I don't WANT a search engine or someone's possible scam parked page to know that I'm trying to visit my bank or whatever... what if you sent a URL with confidential information like a password in it plainly readable but you made a slight typo in the domain and now someone at some OTHER site has your account / password for a totally unrelated site.

What if you had a bookmark for a URL to some site that is temporarily offline due to DNS problems of their own or whatever and the URL had your authentication info. or confidential info in it. Open the bookmark and BOOM someone else now has your account info at that site.

What if you're sending a confidential web mail email and there's a DNS glitch so when you hit SEND it actually sends the whole email to some random search engine or parked page or similarly named site or whatever...

DNS results and HTTP results should only EVER return a positive result for the actually intended site, PERIOD. Anything else I pretty much consider fraudulent interception of my communications for these reasons.

Of course all web sites should be using HTTPS with verifiable certificates so their traffic cannot be casually intercepted / spoofed.. but just because most web sites suck and don't use encryption doesn't mean DNS should suck even worse and spoof their identities just because it can.



 
no,
They are really no faster then any other DNS server
Not to mention after like the first few times you hit a domain it caches it locally.
 
Well, in my defense I suppose, I started using it when that whole DNS injection scare started a few months ago and my ISP wasn't patched yet. I did notice it was significantly faster than my ISP's DNS Server (RR).
 
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