[ILUG] Good DNS in Ireland

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> They do have a lot of control at the moment,
> and they resolve google to their own servers,
> but that's for benevolent reasons they say:
> http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/

Fixing the web is not something I'd immediately expect my DNS service 
to take responsibility for.

I would question the judgement of the recursive-DNS provider: if they 
think it appropriate to manipulate results for any one reason, then 
where is the line?

As the reason for the OpenDNS intervention applies only to a minority 
of web-browsers (a small subset of Dell machines + Windows), it's 
therefore pretty obvious that OpenDNS do not place much value on the 
sanctity of DNS answers.

Further, it means having to trust *another* entity with one's search 
queries, beyond the one that cannot be avoided, for no good reason at 
all (for most of us non-Dell-toolbar users). You really have to 
wonder if gaining access to this commercially valuable search data is 
perhaps the /true/ reason for the OpenDNSs' intervention..

regards,
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