Disqus - Latest Comments for John Roberts

Re: OpenDNS, a Better and Safer DNS Network

John Roberts — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:41:00 -0000

Fred, thanks for taking a look.

We'll be in London soon (hardware is racked, setting up bandwidth). Some folks in Europe and Australia say that we're already faster for them, despite the network latency. Guess it depends on your current DNS provider, since speed for DNS = network latency + speed of resolution. We're fast on the latter even for those outside the US. Also, if you go back to an earlier [blog post](http://blog.opendns.com/2006/06/21/milliseconds-matter-speed-of-light/), you'll see that we're quite aware we need to distribute our network further.

I'd be curious to see what your experience might be like before and after our London node comes online. Let me know if you try it.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: I’m Using OpenDNS

John Roberts — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:45:45 -0000

Thanks for taking the plunge.

Cheers,

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS interview with yours truly | A View from Judi Sohn

John Roberts — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:23:57 -0000

Judi, we're grateful you found the time at all. Thank you!

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS

John Roberts — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:22:13 -0000

Thanks for trying us out. I'm sure we will not disappoint -- but be sure to tell us, either way.

I'm leaving a comment at TechCrunch right now. ;-)

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS

John Roberts — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:08:32 -0000

Glad shortcuts are working exactly as intended for you.

Thanks for using OpenDNS.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS

John Roberts — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:38:32 -0000

More than OK to keep using OpenDNS... invited!

There's well over a million people using OpenDNS now, and we're responding to more than 3.5 billion queries/day.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Slow Google Reader

John Roberts — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:03:21 -0000

Glad to hear you are using OpenDNS.

I still use NetNewsWire for my feeds.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: links for 2006-09-25

John Roberts — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:23:59 -0000

Glad you recognize the value of getting DNS right. I'd encourage you to consider OpenDNS in a head-to-head speed test against your current solution.

Cheers,

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Anatomy of a Blog Move - Part III

John Roberts — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:58:33 -0000

Glad OpenDNS was an aid during your blog move. Cheers. John Roberts, OpenDNS

Re: FiT Tip: OpenDNS + DynDNS + Lighthouse = Lots of Fun

John Roberts — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:27:59 -0000

Guys, great podcast. Yeah, that Extreme N thing surprised us, too. Glad you've found OpenDNS useful.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Analyze Network Protocols With Wireshark on Ubuntu | Tombuntu

John Roberts — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:32:29 -0000

Thanks for using OpenDNS there. ;-)

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Gmail POP with FON woes over?

John Roberts — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:26:07 -0000

Glad OpenDNS is part of the solution. http://www.opendns.com/start/ has instructions for Mac, Windows, Unix/Linux, and more.

Cheers,

John

Re: Domain Owners, Embrace OpenDNS for a Faster and Smarter Internet

John Roberts — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:11:00 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. Also important for domain owners: CacheCheck at http://cache.opendns.com/

Lets you view the big OpenDNS cache results, and refresh them if/as necessary -- useful when you are moving domains and get impatient about propagation.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Does OpenDNS Really Speedup Web Pages?

John Roberts — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:33:31 -0000

DNS speed is two parts:
- network latency
- software speed/cache size

Yes, we're across an ocean from you in the UK right now, but we're able to take advantage of our software speed and cache size (and good connections in central data centers) to make up for network latency to a degree. We have many folks in the UK and throughout Europe using us now.

Read this
http://blog.opendns.com/2006/11/02/five-questio...

We are going to get London going eventually, which will eliminate the network latency concern, too!

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Does OpenDNS Really Speedup Web Pages?

John Roberts — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:31:39 -0000

Busy day at ISPCON, so just getting back to you.

http://blog.opendns.com/2006/08/28/london-serve...
has a picture of the physical servers, but that's hardly the point. ;-)

Cache is what we are talking about
http://www.opendns.com/what/#faster

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Does OpenDNS Really Speedup Web Pages?

John Roberts — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:55:04 -0000

OpenDNS delivers a faster, safer, smarter DNS.

Try for yourself. The speed benefits vary by your situation and network, but for most, they are notable, for the reasons indicated in my earlier post.

Reliability is also important. http://system.opendns.com/ documents ours, and when major outages occur (see http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Responds...), the advantages skyrocket.

Content filtering (phishing, optional otherwise) are built on top of the foundations of speed and reliability -- but up to you why you choose OpenDNS. I just hope you do.

Yes, OpenDNS is a business. So are eBay, Google, and thousands of other useful services... not sure of your point. By providing a useful service, OpenDNS gets people to use our service, which helps our business. If we're not useful, no business.

I'll end by simply saying: try for yourself. It's simple and free.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Write down your previous settings, so you can switch back anytime.

I don't think you'll want to. ;-)

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS Redux

John Roberts — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:28:41 -0000

Hi

Wanted to make sure you saw our new privacy policy at OpenDNS.

http://blog.opendns.com/2007/07/23/privacy-poli...

Cheers,

John

Re: Seven Reasons to Switch to OpenDNS

John Roberts — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:26:43 -0000

Regarding free, not sure we can put it more plainly than this.

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/14

OpenDNS makes money by offering clearly labeled advertisements alongside organic search results when the domain entered is not valid and not a typo we can fix. OpenDNS will provide additional services on top of its enhanced DNS service, and some of them may cost money. Speedy, reliable DNS will always be free.

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS…finally

John Roberts — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:51:36 -0000

That is great news that the NTL barriers are coming down. It's been a constant report we've heard since we launched in July 2006.

Appreciate your use of OpenDNS... we refreshed the website today, in case you didn't see it. Most of the new stuff is in the My Account area, which is optional (but cool).

Cheers,

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: Wierd problems with OpenDNS at Simon Scullion

John Roberts — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:52:50 -0000

As I said in an email to you, let's figure this out!

John Roberts
OpenDNS

Re: OpenDNS

John Roberts — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:08:19 -0000

Doug, thanks for the kind words.

Please continue to tell us how we can improve our service.

Cheers,

John Roberts
OpenDNS