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Give me a break they offered a service for free. Sure if they were an ISP I'd agree with you because your paying for the service but otherwise just don't use it

• growse 12y ago
  It's bait and switch though. They claimed they offered a DNS service, but by deliberately breaking the spec, they offered something that wasn't a DNS service. It was something, but not DNS. I don't care how much it cost, it's dishonest.
  • GhotiFish 12y ago
    err, what would you call it then? how about notDNS? though notDNS implies they don't serve domain names. How about, openDNS? Actually, I don't like that one either, that implies they are open source. How about, gimpDNS. There, I can get behind that one.
• bigbugbag 12y ago
  ad-supported ≠ free
• IgorPartola 12y ago
  Sure. I offer a service for free. I will back up all your email! Just forward it all to me and I will make sure you can get it back! Does that sound like a harmless service? OpenDNS knowingly and deliberately broke the Internet for its customers. I have actually spent time debugging issues it caused just to find that the client was using their resolvers. They were not a free service, they were actively harmful. I am glad the profits are no longer there for them to keep up this malicious practice.
  • sp332 12y ago
    As davidu mentioned, you can make a free account on the site and restore normal NXDOMAIN behavior. Non-broken DNS was opt-in, but it was still a free service.