Comments on: What’s Wrong With OpenDNS? http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/ Certified & Decorated Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Er. Prashant Bohra http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-349113 Er. Prashant Bohra Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:11:09 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2164#comment-349113 hii.. what is the difference in DNS provided by ISP with Open DNS?. are the security concerns same for both or DNS provided by service provider is safeer then openDNS. hii..
what is the difference in DNS provided by ISP with Open DNS?. are the security concerns same for both or DNS provided by service provider is safeer then openDNS.

]]> By: T. Longren http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-27015 T. Longren Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:38:21 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2164#comment-27015 <strong>OpenDNS Speed...</strong> Wikipedia defines Adware as “Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is b... OpenDNS Speed…

Wikipedia defines Adware as “Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is b…

]]> By: Rohan Pinto » OpenDNS http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-26834 Rohan Pinto » OpenDNS Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:48:08 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2164#comment-26834 [...] However cool the opendns system seems to be, there are folks who believe that it does EXpose a serious security vulnerability. If I send a request for indexh.tml, mod_speling detects the mistake and will serve back index.html. The problem is any security products like an IDS/IPS won’t have this intelligence to try and “fix” the request before they analyze it. The IDS/IPS simply sees and logs a request for indexh.tml Modspelling, like this feature in OpenDNS, allows an attacker to side step the attack signatures on a IDS/IPS to exploit a site because the web server will “fix” the attack once it reaches its target. [...] [...] However cool the opendns system seems to be, there are folks who believe that it does EXpose a serious security vulnerability. If I send a request for indexh.tml, mod_speling detects the mistake and will serve back index.html. The problem is any security products like an IDS/IPS won’t have this intelligence to try and “fix” the request before they analyze it. The IDS/IPS simply sees and logs a request for indexh.tml Modspelling, like this feature in OpenDNS, allows an attacker to side step the attack signatures on a IDS/IPS to exploit a site because the web server will “fix” the attack once it reaches its target. [...]

]]> By: Tyler http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-26829 Tyler Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:18:53 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2164#comment-26829 Awesome David. Thanks for the kind words. Point #2 you made is gonna be a good one. It appears to me that the goal of OpenDNS is to serve DNS data for everyone, internet-wide. What happens when OpenDNS gets uber-popular and starts getting hundreds of millions of requests every day? In other words, do you see the service becoming so popular that there's the possibility for network outages? Again, thanks for the kind words David. I've got total, 100% faith in what you're doing and the direction the company is going. Awesome work. Awesome David. Thanks for the kind words.

Point #2 you made is gonna be a good one.

It appears to me that the goal of OpenDNS is to serve DNS data for everyone, internet-wide. What happens when OpenDNS gets uber-popular and starts getting hundreds of millions of requests every day? In other words, do you see the service becoming so popular that there’s the possibility for network outages?

Again, thanks for the kind words David. I’ve got total, 100% faith in what you’re doing and the direction the company is going. Awesome work.

]]> By: David Ulevitch http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-26811 David Ulevitch Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:10:16 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2164#comment-26811 Tyler, Good posts today. I really appreciate you checking this out and evaluating it. I want to address some of the things you talk about and see where we get with them. Ultimately this is a service designed for users and the users guide the choices that we make so I try to get as much feedback as possible. I agree 100% about us needing to be more transparent. The three biggest things we are working on right now are: 1) Getting account preferences up and running so people can just enable and disable the various features they are working on. 2) Providing a much clearer understanding of where our phishing data comes from and what happens if we make a mistake 3) Bringing up our London datacenter and adding in a bunch of peering and other network connectivity to our existing sites. I definitely look forward to launching more stuff but today was a pretty cool day. -david Tyler,

Good posts today. I really appreciate you checking this out and evaluating it. I want to address some of the things you talk about and see where we get with them. Ultimately this is a service designed for users and the users guide the choices that we make so I try to get as much feedback as possible.

I agree 100% about us needing to be more transparent. The three biggest things we are working on right now are:
1) Getting account preferences up and running so people can just enable and disable the various features they are working on.
2) Providing a much clearer understanding of where our phishing data comes from and what happens if we make a mistake
3) Bringing up our London datacenter and adding in a bunch of peering and other network connectivity to our existing sites.

I definitely look forward to launching more stuff but today was a pretty cool day.

-david

]]> By: The Techie Blog » openDNS.com, good or bad? http://www.longren.org/whats-wrong-with-opendns/comment-page-1/#comment-26807 The Techie Blog » openDNS.com, good or bad? Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:29:24 +0000 http://www.longren.org/archives/2164#comment-26807 [...] I agree alot with t.longren - really good artice. Tags:internet services, myspace.com opendns [...] [...] I agree alot with t.longren – really good artice. Tags:internet services, myspace.com opendns [...]

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