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Re: OpenDNS said by tomdlgns:said by AVonGauss:said by dlewis23:Why don't they just tell people to use OpenDNS? OpenDNS also, by default, does the same thing unless you opt-out of their custom search page? i dont think you can opt out. but i might be wrong. i know you can change what it says when a blocked or invalid domain comes up...other than their default message. If you pick the right options(have to be registered user) you can turn OpenDNS servers in to plain vanilla DNS servers that will return a NXDOMAIN errors.
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| 404 Errors are not from DNS server.
404 errors come from web servers when a file you are looking for is not found, thus if DNS lookup failed there would be no server to give the 404 error.
DNS servers give a "NXDOMAIN" I.e Non-Existent Domain error, not a 404
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said by fAcEtIOUs:If you pick the right options(have to be registered user) you can turn OpenDNS servers in to plain vanilla DNS servers that will return a 404 page error. i am a registered user. i have over 35 networks using openDNS, i have never seen that option.
i am not saying it doesnt exist, i was just saying that i didnt think you could change what page loads up when you make a mistake.
openDNS makes money off of those pages, the ads, i dont know why they would allow you to use another landing page when you have a typo in the domain. |
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3 edits | said by tomdlgns:said by fAcEtIOUs:If you pick the right options(have to be registered user) you can turn OpenDNS servers in to plain vanilla DNS servers that will return a NXDOMAIN errors. i am a registered user. i have over 35 networks using openDNS, i have never seen that option. Go to dashboard; settings; advanced settings; and UNCHECK "enable typo correction" and "enable opendns proxy". You will then get the basic error msgs on bad domain names.
P.S.>> after making the change, it takes a few minutes before your new setting are propagated to all the OpenDNS servers.
"Error with those options unchecked" lets Firefox browser handle the error after getting a bad NXDOMAIN response from OpenDNS server: 
No redirection ; normal action on error
And with OpenDNS server redirecting with those options CHECKED, you get this:
redirection on error
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