Sunday, February 04, 2007

Faster, safer Internet with OpenDNS

"OpenDNS runs a really big, smart cache, so every OpenDNS user benefits from the activities of the broader OpenDNS user base," says Allison Rhodes, community manager of OpenDNS. She says OpenDNS runs a high-performance network that is geographically distributed and serviced by several redundant connections. Currently, OpenDNS has four servers in the US and one in the UK. Live system statistics are available for all the servers. You can also view the current status of the servers and daily DNS requests for the past 30 days. One a typical day last month, Rhodes says OpenDNS responded to half a billion DNS queries.

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The Shape of Disaster on the Net

The quakes that damaged seven undersea cables last month got me thinking about disasters in general and they way they look to the network routing around them. Much has already been written about the quakes and the damage that they did to telecommunications infrastructure to Asia. But two perspectives have been missing. The first is the understanding of the event from a network (Internet) perspective.

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