I’ve been having a lot of problems with my ISP’s domain name resolution service.  So what does a DNS problem look like you say?  It’s when you try to go to websites that you know exist, but for some reason your browser just cannot load the site.  You click refresh about 5 times and magically it’s all better.  If you see that kind of error while browsing, then you my friend have a DNS problem.So what you’d like to get is some really fast, really reliable DNS server and use that instead, but which one?

Easy answer – OpenDNS is global and probably has a DNS server very close to your location.  OpenDNS has the lowest failure rate of DNS servers I tested using a randomized list of 10,000 domains and OpenDNS had the fastest response times.

It really does speed up your browsing!  It’s actually a little surprising since I’d never thought about the fact that DNS lookup is something that happens every time your browser loads not only a page, but ANY element of that page that is offsite (such as hit counters and the like).

OpenDNS includes anti-fishing and family friendly (optional) blocking services as well.

Through their PhishTank system they can automatically prevent you from being able to visit a reported fishing site automatically and without you having to install any software on your computer.  That’s amazing!

TEST your current system and go to a TEST (Not Real!) fishing site called www.internetbadguys.com.  All the databases have this listed as a fishing site so you can test your browser. Again, it’s not really a fishing site!  If your browser lets you in, then you are not protected.  If you have OpenDNS then you’ll get the screen as folllows informing you that it has protected you from visiting some really bad guys.

Run, don’t walk to OpenDNS for a faster, better, safer internet.

Click the button to join and you’ll be set up in no time.  They walk you through the process very nicely with a step by step tutorial.  It’s going to take most people less than 10 minutes.

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