 SkellBasherYes Sorto, I'll take my Prozac
join:2000-10-22
Niagara Falls, NY | reply to Done_Posting
Re: Nice said by Done_Posting:I didn't "come out of the woodwork," prick. I made a suggestion that I thought would be helpful, and I admitted that I forgot they show ads (see below). - Tate Don't take it personally. I mean no ill will in your direction. However, look through other discussion threads about ISP DNS redirection over the past year or so, and you will see just about every one has people advising the use of OpenDNS to circumvent their ISPs use of this. A vast majority of them don't bother to mention (or just don't realize) that OpenDNS can only exist because of the revenue they generate from DNS redirection.
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| said by SkellBasher:Not taking a shot at your personally, don't take it as such. Understood, and I appreciate you taking the time to clarify that your statement wasn't aimed directly at me.
- Tate
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 davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC | reply to SkellBasher
Well... At least OpenDNS is up-front about it. And they do let you turn on/off typo correction and customize the redirect page. They also don't cache DNS beyond its TTL (something RR has been doing in many markets for a while that drives our corporate IT department crazy).
Luckily they don't break things like MX Records like the bone heads at Verisign did when they foisted SiteFinder on everyone for a while.
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said by SkellBasher:look through other discussion threads about ISP DNS redirection over the past year or so, and you will see just about every one has people advising the use of OpenDNS to circumvent their ISPs use of this. I recommend OpenDNS to people all of the time. When people are complaining about this more often than not their complaint isn't that they are being redirected or that it breaks their connection to something. More often than not they just don't like being hijacked.
OpenDNS returns relevant links to what you are looking for if you get the spelling in the ballpark. Yes, like Google they have ads along the right of the page. I prefer them to the Level 3 servers because I don't have to re-type the entire URL. Usually the right address is item #1.
Cincinnati Bell Zoomtown has done this for YEARS. I learned to not like it then. Their redirection and the one that Insight uses don't return the most relevant result. Both were just mindless links to ads most of the time. OpenDNS is like, and just might be a Google search.
I don't mind redirection as long as it is my choice. OpenDNS works for me. If it didn't I would use the clean Level 3 servers. |
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