Matt and Nick both posted about trying and liking OpenDNS. Since it’s free, doesn’t require installing anything, and only takes two settings to change, it’s amazingly simple to set it up. It invisibly speeds up web browsing, adds spell checking (if you misspell a domain name), and protects from phishing. At work, our connection is pretty slow, so it’s tough to tell if there’s a major difference. I’m pretty confident it’ll work great at home. Apparently, it speeds up Myspace, too! 
I posted some technical points about the service at my blog.
Posted by William Tan on 19 July 2006 @ 10am
Hm, according to OpenDNS, this domain doesn’t exist.
You typed blogged.btvillarin.com, which doesn’t exist.
We’ve provided search results to help you find the site you intended to visit.
This is rather strange, especially since I read your post about OpenDNS last night, after adding their DNS to my router. I’ll submit it as a bug report and find out what’s going on.
Posted by James (aka MacManX) on 19 July 2006 @ 6pm
The OpenDNS support team has responded to my bug report.
I’m looking into this right now. We’ll figure out what is happening.
Posted by James (aka MacManX) on 19 July 2006 @ 9pm
Thanks for looking into that for me, James. Keep me posted, yeah?
Posted by Bryan on 20 July 2006 @ 12am
Bryan,
I’m posting this from an OpenDNS powered machine so it’s definitely working now. Glad to see you got your NS records all figured out and happy we could help.
-david
Posted by David Ulevitch on 20 July 2006 @ 4pm
pfft I have (all of a sudden) the same issue. It was working fine, and then stopped working for no apparent reason. I emailed them so we shall see.
Posted by Anthony on 20 August 2006 @ 9am
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