silvershield Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 I just discovered this today, while reading the Popular Science magazine... Go to www.opendns.org, and set it up from there! It makes your internet a lot faster!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 alright.. we will give this a shot.. Running on insight's DNS.. ::::::::::.. testmy.net test results ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 9159 Kbps about 9.16 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1118 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 703 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 86 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/02/09 - 3:45pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NX2QJFL6H U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-UEM1984KT User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 74.132.1.148 74.132.1.149 :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 9528 Kbps about 9.53 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1163 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 735 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 90 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/02/09 - 4:02pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-CEH1X8F94 U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-1EV8ATWS2 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 [!] A little faster.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Can anyone here verify this? Swimmer you would be the one I personally would be interested in hearing an opinion from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Well, it won't do anything for the speed tests, but they do seem to be very useful in the case when your own ISPs DNS servers go down. Or you can use them as your primary, whatever you think is best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershield Posted February 9, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Yeah, it doesnt do anything to your bandwidth, but it makes browsing sites a lot faster... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Ok guru's , so basically this is a DNS cache ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 it will not speed your internet connection it will speed what DNS does translate a address www.google.com into an IP so that your computer can put the ip on the packet and send it to your router to get forwarded to the destination server dns = domain name server translates addresses like www.google.com into an IP this ip goes in the packets sent to the router that go out to the internet so having you own DNS will speed this up, sometimes could be milliseconds sometimes it can be 1 or 2 seconds it will NOT speed you ur DOWNLOAD in torrent or FTP or PINGS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Ok guru's , so basically this is a DNS cache ? YES a dns in your own computer Yeah, it doesnt do anything to your bandwidth, but it makes browsing sites a lot faster... basically that is it without much technical words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Are there any security vulnerabilities here? edit .TWC has issues w/ there DNS .....alot , so I must type in 67.18.179.85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershield Posted February 9, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Well it was a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershield Posted February 9, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 No, there arent any security problems... That i know of...It does NOT collect information, track sites where youve been, or collect any other information... read the privacy policy http://www.opendns.com/privacy/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 I will use this for a bit. and report . Thanks Silvershield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 9, 2007 CID Share Posted February 9, 2007 Can anyone here verify this? Swimmer you would be the one I personally would be interested in hearing an opinion from Does it work.. maybe.. it is basically a huge DNS cache.. And it is not an official DNS server.. So there is no redundancy.. Typically DNS is spread out through out the world or decentralized.. Where as OpenDNS is a centralized service.. so the likehood that a natural disaster takes out the service completely is greater. I dont know all of their little secrets but my guess is that the convergence on their servers is going to be a little slower than on the official DNS network. So a new site may appear sooner on your ISP's DNS servers than on OpenDNS's.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershield Posted February 10, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 7599 Kbps about 7.6 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 928 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/02/09 - 8:06pm Bottom Line:: 133X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.1 sec Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 13.109 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 58.25 % faster than the average for host (midco.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-F61CV0RBJ User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 [!] Used to be around 7300... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted February 10, 2007 CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 come to think of it i have always wished my router supported a tertiary dns for when the 2 dns's supplied by my isp go tits up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershield Posted February 10, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 What kind of router do you have? On most every one, I think you can change it somehow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 10, 2007 CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 come to think of it i have always wished my router supported a tertiary dns for when the 2 dns's supplied by my isp go tits up. haha... you should be able to.. If you go into local area connection advanced -> DNS tab. you should be able to add as many DNS servers as you like.. I am pretty sure that if you kill dynamic DNS on your router and assign each computer what DNS server you choose it will work.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted February 10, 2007 CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 true that. that would mean i have to sort ot all the ip's and stuff manually... hm... not today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 10, 2007 CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 Just the DNS stuff.. the IPs could still be assigned by DHCP.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted February 10, 2007 CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 ok, but i still would have to enter the dns'es into each comp hooked up. and when a 'strange' comp comes over and hooks up he won't get a dns?!? don't think i can even tell my router to hand out everything but the dns... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershield Posted February 10, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 Log in to your router by typing in "192.168.1.1" or "192.168.0.1", it depends in what brand of router you have. You should get a password prompt...For Netgear routers, the default Username is "admin" and default password is "password". For Linksys routers, leave the username field blank, and the password "1234" or "password" or "admin". If none of these work, here is a list of all of the router's default passwords: http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html Once you are logged in, it should be under "basic settings". Choose "Use these DNS servers" and type in 208.67.222.222 (primary) and 208.67.220.220 (secondary). These are the OpenDNS servers. On some routers, you can assign more than two, so you can put your ISP's DNS servers also if you want... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted February 10, 2007 CID Share Posted February 10, 2007 i know what to do. and i also know the mantra "never touch a working system" as in, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph0829 Posted February 28, 2007 CID Share Posted February 28, 2007 how will i able to apply OpenDNS servers? I am currenlty using SmartBro -its is a wireless broadband here in the philippines and using canopy lite(motorola).. how will i configure them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keetan Posted March 1, 2007 CID Share Posted March 1, 2007 it will not speed your internet connection it will speed what DNS does translate a address www.google.com into an IP so that your computer can put the ip on the packet and send it to your router to get forwarded to the destination server dns = domain name server translates addresses like www.google.com into an IP this ip goes in the packets sent to the router that go out to the internet so having you own DNS will speed this up, sometimes could be milliseconds sometimes it can be 1 or 2 seconds it will NOT speed you ur DOWNLOAD in torrent or FTP or PINGS Precisely right. Not everyone can remember numbers and the octets, so they've made names for web sites and servers to translate those for the masses...(DNS). But before being "gung ho" about specifying DNS servers, be aware of the following below: Choosing and specifying 2 servers via your tcp/ip properties, they can make or break your surfing speed and how the pages pull up. Here are some factors of why to choose to make specific ones (3rd party) vs. auto obtain (your ISP): 1. When you "auto obtain DNS", you are using your ISP to balance the load and giving you an optimal connection. This is somewhat best, and not having to worry about sites pulling up, because it will choose the ones for you that aren't overwhelmed at their HQ. As a tech support rep for an ISP, I can certainly say on a day to day basis, some go down and therefore is pulled out of the "pool" for customers not to use. It's defintely a crap shoot. 2. Your ISP, depending where you live, will use ~5-15 DNS servers @ their CMTS to balance the load of all their traffic and translate sites into IP addresses and versa. 3. If you specifically choose 2 of them to specifically use, you're limiting your computers direction path to resolve names and that be a good thing for that the DNS server(s) (ISP HQ) may be a stone's throw from your house, which distance DOES matter. And, it may be a split second faster than say using another DNS server thousands of miles away, even if it's not under a lot of traffic. So optimally, you want to specifically use servers that are closest to you, have the least amount of downtime, and ultimately, have the least amount of traffic (i.e. don't bragg or tell anyone about them! It's like finding a gold mine!) -- When people call and web sites aren't pulling up, and their signal is good, I usually test or trace route the website through the command prompt to determine if it's a problem or not. I use ip's for my pop3 and smtp servers for Outlook instead of the names because they are ALWAYS in peak traffic. It bypasses the servers... I hope you can follow me on that. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted March 1, 2007 CID Share Posted March 1, 2007 Precisely right. -- When people call and web sites aren't pulling up, and their signal is good, I usually test or trace route the website through the command prompt to determine if it's a problem or not. I use ip's for my pop3 and smtp servers for Outlook instead of the names because they are ALWAYS in peak traffic. It bypasses the servers... I hope you can follow me on that. =) Not to butt in here, so that means that you use the ip's decimal number for your pop3 and smtp instead of the name.name.name to eliminate the DNS server. I have read about some some doing this but I didn't pay attention and understand the reason, good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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