Comments on: Fixing RoadRunner

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:24:41 +0000

It’s not basically the same thing. I pay TWC for internet access and they’re trying to make ad revenue on top of that with their crappy DNS service. I don’t use Google so don’t really care about that. See if you insist on Google results. Anyway, I could run a caching DNS server at home if I didn’t care about how much electricity I use, but I do. My router and modem are the only piece of equipment always on.

OpenDNS uses ads, which I never see since I use Firefox with Adblock Plus, but it’s all opt-in, unlike TWC. And the service is better.

By: Tanner Lovelace

Tanner Lovelace — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:47:08 +0000

You may not have to support “TWC in their ignorant and greedy bid to redirect DNS requests from nonexistent domains to their advertisements” but OpenDNS is doing basically the same thing:

http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=226&page=2

Basically, if you search google through OpenDNS, they catch it and put it through their servers first. One problem with that (although, admittedly, not a problem here in the Triangle) is that if you try to search from a localized Google (the example I heard was from Canada) you would instead get a search from Google.com instead of the local google.ca (or whatever country).

It’s not that hard to set up your own caching DNS server, so perhaps that’s the better thing to do.

By: Russell Harrison

Russell Harrison — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:23:10 +0000

I’m having the same trouble with Time Warner. Its really frustrating to have EVERYTHING taking forever lately. I was using OpenDNS before but got really frustrated with their redirection of incorrect DNS entries to adds. Now you’re telling my that Time Warner is going to be giving me poor service and crappy adds. :-(