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This isn't true for Google. Akamai has all kinds of archaic network issues that cause problems, but it isn't often OpenDNS related. They certainly do their be
by davidu 16y ago
This isn't true for Google. Akamai has all kinds of archaic network issues that cause problems, but it isn't often OpenDNS related. They certainly do their best, and know our network map well as we send it to them whenever it changes.
For Google -- If you use OpenDNS, you will always go to the most appropriate Google datacenter to you (not OpenDNS).
- dsl 16y agoTHIS. Akamai is using technology designed in 1998. I wish they would work with opendns to fix it.
- foobarbazetc 16y agoAkamai's not doing anything wrong. OpenDNS is a broken concept.
- dsl 16y agoAkamai only worked right 75% of the time even when it was first launched. Large ISPs that operated a single set of DNS servers for nationwide customers had the same problems. All OpenDNS did was start offering the same thing ISPs already did as an external service.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoHow so? DNS was never designed to be used as a geolocation vector, as far as I have ever heard, so relying on it to be one does seem "wrong".
- IgorPartola 16y agoOpenDNS defaults to resolving non-existant domains as search results, bereaking DNS. You can turn it off, if you have a static IP.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoI see. That doesn't seem to me to be a "broken concept", however, but a rather minor misfeature. I may have misread the poster to which I was responding, but his assertion seems to read to me that OpenDNS as a whole is fundamentally wrong or broken, and that Akamai is using the idea of DNS for something it was never intended to be is "correct". Both of those statements do not ring true.
- davidu 16y agoThis has nothing to do with Akamai being able to target users accurately. Google doesn't have this issue, so why does Akamai?
- davidu 16y agoThat's simply not true. Please argue with facts.