Comments on: OpenDNS Shortcuts (are) were More Like Detours

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:20:01 +0000

Yes, that’s a pain for me, too – I’m used to just typing the shortname, too, and I am seeing the OpenDNS page way to often because of this… which really means, the total time, including the correction is longer than it would have been without OpenDNS.

By: John Bucek

John Bucek — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:54:50 +0000

I tried OpenDNS and didn’t like it. DNS requests felt a bit quicker, but by typing in just a domain’s name as I often got used to doing (thanks to Firefox), when I type ‘ebay’ in address bar of Firefox, it does a quick check with google, and that automatically loads up the obvious choice, http://www.ebay.com. Same goes with any other major domain names. But with OpenDNS, I get a OpenDNS-sponsored web search results, complete with OpenDNS ads, showing top 10 choices, with number 1 choice being http://www.ebay.com.

I know thats how they make money, but to speed up DNS requests at the expense of losing smart DNS auto-redirecting, it’s simply not worth it for me.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:02:08 +0000

David, you’re commenting too fast:-)

I am not complaining about the 3-400ms, some of that could very well be explained by random differences between measurements.

I think we’re back to normal now… and thanks for commenting that fast;-)

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:58:10 +0000

Your point is well taken though, we can strive to make that faster. In theory, it should be a 150ms delay. The benefit of the shorthand outweighs 150-200ms, but not a number of seconds. I’ll let you know when we have it fixed.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:51:34 +0000

David and Paul,

Thanks for the comments, I’ve updated the post.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:51:08 +0000

It does, and I don’t have it as default, somehow the spam filter caught you, although I can’t figure out why…

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:41:03 +0000

Oops sorry for my repetitive post, this is why comment moderation stinks.

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:15:36 +0000

Can you run your test again now?

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:07:30 +0000

OpenDNS was actually having an issue earlier, which may have been around when you were writing this post: http://system.opendns.com/2007/08/23/43/

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:59:56 +0000

This is a case of really bad timing.

http://system.opendns.com/2007/08/23/43/