[ale] OpenDNS

[Brian Pitts]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:37:55 -0400
> William Witt <william at witt-family.net> wrote:
> 
>> At least in Miami, Comcast's DNS server's are awful.  If you do decide
>> to use them, ensure the IPv6 is turned off or you'll only get valid
>> responses 50% of the time.  When I was with Comcast, I used OpenDNS.
> 
> I would love OpenDNS if only they didn't return "valid" information for
> sites which do not (and in some cases, will never) exist:

That's a "feature" you can turn off. I unchecked everything (except   	
Enable dynamic IP update) on their advanced settings page for my network
to get this behavior:

$ dig @208.67.220.220 linux.fsck

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;linux.fsck.			IN	A

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All the best,
Brian Pitts