Couple it with free (and high-quality) DNS hosting from EveryDNS.net, and you've got quite a combo. I'm using it for one of my domains, and I especially like the fact that they can pull a zone transfer from a dynamic IP (as long as it's got a Dynamic-DNS hostname that's consistently the same). They run on donations and by volunteer effort. -- royce on 5 January, 2007 - 05:50.
yowza ... cool! i didn't know about that, good tip, thanks! - adam on 6 January, 2007 - 10:09.
After using OpenDNS for a couple months T started to report that "the internet was very slow". Unfortunately this coincided with me traveling and also changing ISPs so it took a while to figure out exactly what the problem was.
The symptom was that certain web sites took a very long time to load (5+ minutes for a single page). The main sites T noticed this with were MySpace, Yahoo, Flickr and the Anchorage Daily News. Anyway after much too'ing and fro'ing it turned out that getting rid of OpenDNS made the problem go away. It doesn't entirely make sense to me because the sites did resolve, and you'd think they'd be locally cached after the first lookup, but regardless removing the OpenDNS name servers fuxed it.
It took me a while to figure out why this only affected T and didn't seem to effect my computer ... and then I realized that I spend most of my life VPN'd into work and am obviously using their DNS servers. Doh.
adam on 21 March, 2007