[ale] Mozy is changing the pricing model.

[Ron Frazier]

OK, here's what happened.  I have opendns set to block social networking 
sites.  Twitter is blocked, being in that category.  So, if I were to 
type in twitter.com, the browser would be redirected to a landing page 
saying this site is not allowed on this network, etc.  However, the link 
that was provided was an https link.  So, you try to go to twitter.  
Behind the scenes, it's redirected to opendns.  Then, Firefox complains 
because their security certificate belongs to opendns and not twitter.  
When I took the "S" off the https, I got the landing page I would have 
expected.  When I went in and unblocked twitter, everything worked.  
However, that error message had me going for a while, scratching my head.

I've used opendns for years without much problem.  It's good for 
limiting what your teenager can do.

Ron

On 02/04/2011 10:35 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 10:28 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
>    
>> That link gives me a "This connection is untrusted" warning in Firefox
>> with the following text:
>>
>> twitter.com uses an invalid security certificate.
>>
>> The certificate is only valid for the following names:
>>     *.opendns.com , opendns.com
>>      
> Now that is interesting.
>
> Given that OpenDNS and Twitter have nothing to do with each other, this
> can only happen because of a problem either on your system/network or
> with OpenDNS.  Perhaps OpenDNS failed to resolve twitter.com and
> attempted to take you to one of their "let's help you" pages?
>
> I used to use them, but I was pretty displeased; it failed too
> frequently and the whole point was to get something that sucked less
> than Comcast's DNS servers (though Comcast has vastly improved the
> availability and responsiveness of their DNS servers in the past several
> years, from what I hear).  I moved to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (the DNS
> servers run by Level 3 Communications).  Lots of people have said good
> things about the Google DNS servers, but I've never had need to use
> them.
>
> Now, I'm running BIND on my network, and it is my primary DNS server for
> all my zones and also performs the role of being a caching recursive
> name server for the rest of my network.  I've had much better network
> performance since I went and did that.
>
>    
>> I do use OpenDNS as my DNS service, but I'm not sure why this is
>> happening.  Also, it's a good idea to give a preview when using an URL
>> shortener (your first message) so people know where they're going
>> before they click.
>>      
> You can always force the URL shortener to preview the link for you ---
> every URL shortener has a different way of doing it, of course, but it's
> possible for all of them that I am aware of.
>
> 	--- Mike
>    
>
>
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