Open DNS

[pauln375]

I found this the other day it is a free service, where you use there dns servers. you have full control over your internet connection ,you can block sites also just certain content, also you can make shortcuts to sites you visit example (to visit this site i type tn into my browser and hit enter.) This is a great tool for parental control as well as blocking sites known to be infected. Best of all it is free for personal as well as commercial use

The link to the main page
http://www.opendns.com/

There are many other features that this service offers. More than I could explain here and they do much better explaining , than me and my poor spelling and punctuation could.

[seedubya]

I set this up for some of my customers. The OpenDNS updater is occaisonally prone to just stopping thus allow all traffic through. You need to educate users to this possiblility.

[RyanMeray]

OpenDNS is fantastic, and it's a LOT faster than a lot of ISP's DNS service.

[Majestic]

holy sh*t!!! What a friggin difference from my ISP. Mannnn I didn't realize how slow my isps dns servers were. Wow! That's all I have to say! It's like I'm on a faster connection altogether.

Thanks!

Majestic

[Jory]

I've been using OpenDNS for a while. My ISP's DNS servers would occasionally crash at 1am exactly.

It works well, but they do hijack your google queries.

[seedubya]

The don't hijack anything. If you read their site it's very clear about how they make their money and is part of their T&C's before you start using their service. Not exactly hijacking.

[Jory]

You can call it what you want, but they're returning their own IP when you do a DNS request for Google. They claim to be doing it for the right reasons and I believe them, but it's something people should consider before using it.

[seedubya]

What you call it, in this instance, is quite important mostly because "hijacking" (in internet terms) has strong connotations of something underhand/immoral/illegal etc. In this case there's nothing bad going all and it's an unfair use of the term.