Comments on: What pisses me off: DNS “miss” results pages http://tipotheday.com/2008/06/17/what-pisses-me-off-dns-miss-results-pages/ techno tips and tricks Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:43:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mshade http://tipotheday.com/2008/06/17/what-pisses-me-off-dns-miss-results-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-1465 mshade Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:03:19 +0000 http://tipotheday.com/?p=153#comment-1465 Jamie, My problems with OpenDNS don't end there. I intend to make another post about OpenDNS specifically, but some of the issues I saw were: - DNS cache attacks specific to OpenDNS (photobucket.com in this case) - OpenDNS uses a proxy for Google.com, leading to one case where I was unable to access google - Why does OpenDNS use a proxy for google.com? are they recording searches? - And of course, the landing page for unknown domains There are more, which is why I think another post is warranted. But thanks for mentioning the available settings, that should be useful to someone. Jamie,

My problems with OpenDNS don’t end there. I intend to make another post about OpenDNS specifically, but some of the issues I saw were:

- DNS cache attacks specific to OpenDNS (photobucket.com in this case)
- OpenDNS uses a proxy for Google.com, leading to one case where I was unable to access google
- Why does OpenDNS use a proxy for google.com? are they recording searches?
- And of course, the landing page for unknown domains

There are more, which is why I think another post is warranted. But thanks for mentioning the available settings, that should be useful to someone.

]]> By: Jamie http://tipotheday.com/2008/06/17/what-pisses-me-off-dns-miss-results-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-1464 Jamie Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:58:47 +0000 http://tipotheday.com/?p=153#comment-1464 There's settings you can fiddle with in the OpenDNS dashboard that have alleviated similar frustrations on my end. I just skimmed through and disabled anything related to 'shortcuts' or 'typo correction' and I had my wonderful "I'm feeling lucky" Firefox address bar back to normal. Some people were reporting it taking longer for the changes to take effect than others, but hopefully this will help things on your end. There’s settings you can fiddle with in the OpenDNS dashboard that have alleviated similar frustrations on my end. I just skimmed through and disabled anything related to ‘shortcuts’ or ‘typo correction’ and I had my wonderful “I’m feeling lucky” Firefox address bar back to normal. Some people were reporting it taking longer for the changes to take effect than others, but hopefully this will help things on your end.

]]> By: travis http://tipotheday.com/2008/06/17/what-pisses-me-off-dns-miss-results-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 travis Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:19:28 +0000 http://tipotheday.com/?p=153#comment-1462 Dude, don't even get me started. Im with rogers and they use SMC for there DNS gateway, and every unsuccessful query re-directs me to wsearch.net, which not only looks like a phishing website, it spawns pop ups. Its definitely not spyware (a) im on a mac and b) other people have the same issue). Heres the kicker, its only with people using the SMC router. Dude, don’t even get me started. Im with rogers and they use SMC for there DNS gateway, and every unsuccessful query re-directs me to wsearch.net, which not only looks like a phishing website, it spawns pop ups. Its definitely not spyware (a) im on a mac and b) other people have the same issue). Heres the kicker, its only with people using the SMC router.

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