[Cialug] google dns

Jerry Heiselman jerry at heiselman.com
Thu Dec 3 18:30:33 CST 2009


I believe that we decided that you opt-in by even using them since you
can't get their results any other way.

So I don't see the problem. If you don't want the results, use your
ISPs server or setup your own caching nameservers that only rely on
the root servers.

On 12/3/09, Bryan Baker <ka_klick at mac.com> wrote:
> I sure didn't opt in and I've been getting redirects from OpenDNS.
> I've also had really bad DNS response from them lately, so will be
> trying out the google IPs tonight.
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM, David Bierce <david at bierce.org> wrote:
>>> Aside from data mining, it's also an opportunity to avoid lost
>>> revenue by ISPs
>>> and DNS services that redirect DNS to custom portals with advertising
>>> instead of returning no result.....
>>>
>>> <Glares at Media Comm and OpenDNS>
>>
>> I thought we'd decided here on the list some months ago that OpenDNS
>> only does that if you opt in?
>>
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