[119293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Nov 12 15:46:21 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:30 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4AFB7256.2080909@everydns.net> (David Ulevitch's message of
"Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:26:30 -0800")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* David Ulevitch:
> On 11/11/09 12:48 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> What if your ISP's name servers are those from OpenDNS?
>
> We don't sell service to ISPs. That's a deliberate decision. But you
> already knew that.
No, I'm genuinely surprised, really. After all, there is
<http://www.opendns.com/customers/industry/3/>. Generally, I've got
less knowledge about OpenDNS than you might think.
