Google Public DNS, one step too far?

peachy · #11 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 13:20

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Originally Posted by mr. retto

retto and me are therefore using our own, DNSSEC-enabled nameservers. We don't get the warning pages about fishing sites peachy gets, but then I tend to think that DNS is the wrong place to do that. I don't like MS, Google or OpenDNS deciding how DNS should be used by me.

I agree DNS is the wrong place to do this but for home use it is the quickest and easiest.

I have to stick up for OpenDNS, they do at least let you choose what they log and how you use the service, they also only have the information that you volunteer to them explicitly for this service. Google and your ISP can relatively easily link your browsing history to you the person (this includes browsing in "porn mode" people).

MarkJ · #12 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 21:28

I ran my own caching DNS servers for some time, but once in a while there would be a little problem and I'd have to diagnose it and get it running again so my wife could work, at the same time that I was supposed to be doing my own work.

So now OpenDNS knows that we like to play Dora the Explorer flash games and do a lot of reading about public health. Oh well.