Sitefinder II, the sequel...

Joseph Jackson JJackson at aninetworks.com
Tue Jul 11 19:57:12 UTC 2006


I agree.  I think this isn't a bad service.  If people want to run it
more power to them.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Golding [mailto:dgolding at tier1research.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:22 PM
> To: 'Stephane Bortzmeyer'; 'Steve Sobol'
> Cc: Joseph Jackson; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Sitefinder II, the sequel...
> 
> 
> That's absolutely ridiculous. Enterprise IT organizations 
> make decisions on behalf of their userbase all day. Frankly, 
> I'd be shocked if many tried this out - most enterprises run 
> their own DNS servers as part of an Active Directory scheme. 
> In any case, those workstations belong to the enterprise and 
> they can point them to whatever DNS servers they want. 
> 
> For most end-users, their Internet access provider already 
> selects their DNS caching server. ISPs are within their 
> rights to do this - I'm surprised most broadband ISPs haven't 
> done exactly what OpenDNS is doing to generate revenue.
> 
> I'm sure if you look really hard, you can find something else 
> to be outraged about. OpenDNS isn't it. I'm at a loss to 
> explain why people are trying so hard to condemn something like this. 
> 
> - Daniel Golding
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] 
> On Behalf 
> > Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:09 AM
> > To: Steve Sobol
> > Cc: Joseph Jackson; nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:19:51PM -0700,  Steve Sobol 
> > <sjsobol at JustThe.net> wrote  a message of 16 lines which said:
> > 
> > > There's a big difference, of course, between 
> INTENTIONALLY pointing 
> > > your computers at DNS servers that do this kind of thing, 
> and having 
> > > it done for you without your knowledge and/or consent.
> > 
> > As Steven Bellovin pointed out, most OpenDNS users will not 
> choose it:
> > it will be choosen for them by their corporate IT department or by 
> > their Internet access provider.
> 
> 
> 



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