Open DNS, (Pros and Cons) ?

[ikt]

Benchmarking with http://code.google.com/p/namebench theres no faster DNS than the google's 8.8.8.8.

Hrmmm?

Internode AU-2 is 94.4% Faster than your current primary DNS server

Primary Server 192.231.203.3 Internode AU-2 (My isp's backup DNS server)
Secondary Server 127.0.0.1 SYS-127.0.0.1 (My ISP's primary DNS server)
Tertiary Server 192.168.0.72 (my local dns server)

8.8.4.4 comes in 5th place after a rival ISP's DNS server.

[SlugSlug]

in a default install - where does bind9 retrieve it's information from?

[1clue]

From root dns servers, same as any other DNS

[juancarlospaco]

Hrmmm?

8.8.4.4 comes in 5th place after a rival ISP's DNS server.

We both are right, since my ISP != your ISP.

[lykwydchykyn]

OpenDNS is not DNS. It does not follow the DNS standard, since if some name dont exist it MUST return an Error, opendns returns their own web search page with ads.

This is why I quit using opendns. I have a server at home that does its own dns, and when it went down and I'd try (not knowing it was down) to ssh in, my client would try to ssh into opendns's server and I'd just get "connection refused". Sent me barking up the wrong tree one too many times.

[juancarlospaco]

This is why I quit using opendns. I have a server at home that does its own dns, and when it went down and I'd try (not knowing it was down) to ssh in, my client would try to ssh into opendns's server and I'd just get "connection refused". Sent me barking up the wrong tree one too many times.

I code Python stuff, and a non-standard DNS cause several problem, that should not be.

[lykwydchykyn]

I code Python stuff, and a non-standard DNS cause several problem, that should not be.

I can see that. In my case, it was a security issue as well because my credentials were being sent to someplace other than where they were supposed to.