OpenDNS New Plans (and Initial Confusion)

Last month, the OpenDNS folks announced their upcoming Deluxe and Enterprise plans. I’ve been using their free service for quite some time now – I’ve even integrated into our small office as part of the security solution and have configured my home and several relatives’ home networks for it as well.

Lovely stuff. Based on their

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Oops: Win 7 x64 and Avira AntiVir

Yesterday I was whinging about AntiVir on my Windows 7 machine. It seemed to be killing my speed to some web sites. Tonight I saw this OpenDNS System update titled, “Suboptimal Routing for Comcast Customers:”

Recent changes by Comcast caused suboptimal routing to OpenDNS for some Comcast users, leading to reduced DNS performance.  Some users affected

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That Whole DNS “thing”

You’ve probably been inundated with news about Dan Kaminsky’s DNS cache exploit, potentially one of the biggest Internet-wide vulnerabilities ever announced. Unpatched DNS servers can be easily tricked into leading users to bogus Web sites, and literally, without patching the DNS servers (and sometimes the clients) there is little the average end-user can do. Although

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Pager Quest

Want to feel old-school and ancient? Go try to buy a pager.

I monitor our production operations, and quite a bit of dev too, with WhatsUp monitoring software. I love it, it does everything I need now and stuff I look forward to figuring out some day.

I used to do all the notification messages

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(X)ubuntu and Slow DNS

It was just a week or so ago that I cobbled together another laptop running Xubuntu. Alas, I didn't have that one for more than a few days before I decided my oldest son could use a computer more than I needed a secondary machine. So, it became an XP Pro laptop...

However, I've

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