OpenDNS saved my life.

Jul 1, 2009 · 1 min read

devOps

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“Oh my God! my site is down? I visited my site only 5 minutes ago and it's down?”

— No actually it's up and running fine. So why my domain is not resolved? There must be a DNS cache problem or something.

-- “Hello, I am Kibria and I am using your Internet. There is a problem related to your DNS servers. My domain is not resolved properly.”

-- “Ok please hold on. Yes, I am transferring you to our DNS admin.”

-- “Hi I am Haisb, a Senior DNS admin. How can I help you?”

-- “One of my domains is not resolving properly. Can you flush your DNS for me?”

-- “I am really sorry Sir but I can’t flush DNS right Now. It's now on schedule.”

This kind of problem happened almost regularly with my ISP until I switched to OpenDNS. In here Bangladesh, there are few ISP that can understand this matter. They answer like an Idiot in reply to such a situation. I switched to OpenDNS and now all the problem is gone. I am really happy and very much satisfied with their Service.

So what actually OpenDNS is?

OpenDNS is a free service that works for networks of all sizes, from home networks to K-12 schools, SMBs, and large enterprises.

Here are just a few reasons millions of people have already made the switch:

Security:

Industry-leading anti-phishing protects everyone on your network from fraudulent phishing scams.
Award-winning Web content filtering gives you the power to block up to 50 categories of content.
Detailed statistics empower you to understand your network traffic and spot trends before they become problems.

Infrastructure:

A globally distributed network makes Web sites load noticeably faster on your network.
Anycast routing technology makes your Internet more reliable, freeing you of intermittent outages.

Navigation:

Browser Shortcuts let your users map a short-term to a long URL via the address bar.
Typo correction auto-corrects the most common typos in top-level domains.
OpenDNS Guide provides helpful search results when your users try to visit a Web site that isn’t resolving.