[119264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Nov 11 15:57:37 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <873a4k3hzs.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:55 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Since people need to *explicitly* choose using the OpenDNS servers, I
>> can hardly see how anybody's wishes are foisted on these people.
>>=20
>> If you don't like the answers you get from this (free) service, you
>> can of course choose to use a different service - for instance your
>> ISP's name servers.
>=20
> What if your ISP's name servers are those from OpenDNS?
1) You can personally opt-out of OpenDNS' NXDOMAIN stuff & such.
2) I don't really see how that makes a difference. The point is, =
OpenDNS is not forcing anyone. Your ISP has a policy you don't like, =
use a different ISP. If there is no other ISP, well, I don't know what =
to tell you? Start one? Move?
End of day, it is an OPT-IN service. If you happen to "opt-in" by =
buying service from your ISP, that does not change the basic premise.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
