OpenDNS vs Comodo Secure DNS

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[kunri]

Technically does CS DNS provide same features as OpenDNS i.e. blocking malicious sites etc?

[Quill]

It does. Read more here:

http://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/

[HeffeD]

It does not however, (at least as far as I can tell) allow the user any control over which sites to block.

OpenDNS will allow the user to blacklist or whitelist particular sites. Yes I know you can blacklist with the firewall in CIS, (no whitelisting though) but OpenDNS makes it really easy to apply the same filters to multiple machines.

[kunri]

Well. Developers of an excellent product like CIS might add this feature one day.  We can wait patiently.

[imanewuser]

At least where I live (south central Montgomery County, MD), using Verizon DSL's lowest choice of service (bandwidth 1184Kbps/488Kbps), and testing my throughput using both of the following websites via Firefox 3.5 to test my speed:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/  and 
http://www.wurd.com/thoughput/thruput.htm
I achieved consistently slightly faster results with OpenDNS than I did with Comodo Secure DNS.  Individual results may vary with the relative proximity of the Comodo and OpenDNS DNS servers to the servers your ISP uses to provide you with your internet access.

[HeffeD]

At least where I live (south central Montgomery County, MD), using Verizon DSL's lowest choice of service (bandwidth 1184Kbps/488Kbps), and testing my throughput using both of the following websites via Firefox 3.5 to test my speed:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/  and 
http://www.wurd.com/thoughput/thruput.htm
I achieved consistently slightly faster results with OpenDNS than I did with Comodo Secure DNS.  Individual results may vary with the relative proximity of the Comodo and OpenDNS DNS servers to the servers your ISP uses to provide you with your internet access.

DNS is merely a database to resolve host names to IP addresses... A quicker DNS service can speed up your browsing experience because the less time it takes to connect you to the destination server the faster you can flip from page to page. However, it will not improve your throughput!

Any difference you see in upload/download speeds are due to factors other than DNS.

[Beanie]

Hey everyone, just as a side note, the free version of OpenDNS doesn't actually block malware sites, only phishing sites and botnets.

http://www.opendns.com/start/

[bluesjunior]

Prior to using Comodo DNS I used the free version of Open DNS, can honestly say I have never ever noticed any difference at all.

[PSchuetz]

Hi there,

another alternative is e.g. the Internet Guide from dyndns www.dyndns.com
It offers the same if not more protection, based on barracuda www.barracudanetworks.com

But I don't know, whether I should use any of these, because neither is faster or better for me..!

I'm using the second DNS IP from my local ISP provider and it's very fast, response time here in Germany is about 10 ms.

If I ping the others including Comodo Secure DNS I get 12-30 ms respsone time.

8-12 ms for my local isp unitymedia (cable-modem).
14-19 ms for Internet Guide from dyndns.
12-18 ms to opendsn.

And 20-30 ms for Comodo Secure-DNS.
I.e. too slow for comdo!

regards,

PSchuetz

[Jim__]

You might want to try DNSTESTER to compare the response to DNS requests.

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