In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy

Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by Piskvorrr on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:48AM (#4280376)

"Fairly simple to set up BIND" - well yes, for someone with access to the local gateway and the ability to install a caching DNS resolver, this is a good option.

Unfortunately, most crappy DNS servers are with residential ISPs - and most residential users don't run anything near an usable distro on their gateways. For a user who's just competent enough to change the DNS settings, the "slow CDN access" versus "spotty DNS" tradeoff will be heavily weighted towards the first option.

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by icebraining on Monday July 23, 2012 @07:08AM (#4280410)

Why not just install the DNS resolver on the client machine? Sure, you'd miss out on the shared cache, but I doubt it'd make much of a difference.

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by sanxiyn on Monday July 23, 2012 @08:18AM (#4280559)

This is what I do. Caching DNS resolver needs no configuration whatsoever. It is literally "apt-get install pdns-recursor" and edit /etc/resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1.

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by Macha on Monday July 23, 2012 @12:14PM (#4281679)

And on Windows? Or a Ubuntu user who only knows how to use the GUI? Or OS X?

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by Dylan16807 on Monday July 23, 2012 @01:43PM (#4282129)

I don't know about windows but it's pretty easy to install a single program and either edit a text file or go into network settings with a gui.

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by sanxiyn on Monday July 23, 2012 @02:53PM (#4282455)

What I wrote is actually possible to do on Ubuntu without ever opening a terminal.

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by Piskvorrr on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @07:00AM (#4285137)

Not to mention that the NetworkManager version shipping with 12.04 does this by default.

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by piffey on Monday July 23, 2012 @07:06AM (#4280408)

How many home users will even notice the few second difference and think there's anything they can do about it though?

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by Piskvorrr on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @11:21AM (#4286044)

Good point. The ones likely to notice would be the ones capable of setting up a local caching DNS server (that is to say, the HN crowd).

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