Slacy’s Blog

So, I tried OpenDNS for a while. Until one day I came home and my wife was complaining that she had spent 4 hours on the phone with her company’s IT department trying to figure out why her VPN didn’t work. She mentioned that sometimes she was seeing the OpenDNS search page instead of her company’s intranet links. So, I turned off OpenDNS, and everything worked. This is totally unacceptable behavior for OpenDNS, so I now proclaim that its a huge pile of dookie.

After chatting with friends over lunch about OpenDNS, I’ve decided to give it a try. What I’m mostly interested in is the anti-phishing and typo correction services, which seem pretty cool. It went pretty smoothly, although they didn’t have any instructions about how to update my OpenWRT router to OpenDNS. (thats no surprise!). The secret missing link was that I needed to reboot the router for the new DNS settings to take effect. Once I did that, things are up and running well.