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My ISP is a DNS Sellout!

Started by Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

This has been brought up in the past, but recently I’ve noticed that my Internet Service Provider, Road Runner from Time Warner Cable, has decided that when I typo on the location bar, it’s perfectly acceptable to send me to a not-so-helpful search result page. ... Continue reading »

7 comments

tsudohnimh
1 year ago

I've seen 2 ISPs in our market add this to their service within the past 3months and I hate it. The results are fixed. I've yet to see the same results when trying a Yahoo search. It can also be a pain doing network testing.

I second the positive vote for OpenDNS. I've been using it for over a year now and love it. It is much faster and offers tons of options.

I fear we are seeing the wave of the future

Phil Glockner
1 year ago

I hear ya. I just switched my personal router over to OpenDNS, might as well practice what I preach, eh? So far so good.

Rahsheen
1 year ago

Awesome read, I had no clue this project existed. I haven't had any issues yet, but I have Comcast, so It's only a matter of time. Or maybe my router keeps me from seeing all that crap.

Phil Glockner
1 year ago

Oh no, your router picks up the DNS server IPs via DHCP. So if you typo typing in a web URL and you aren't getting results similar to my first screenshot, then your ISP hasn't 'sold out' yet. Which is great, but there are still some reasons to use OpenDNS, such as potentially faster lookups, configurable filtering of certain types of sites (like porn, malware, etc).. anyway, you can visit their site if you want more info.

Thanks for your comment!

Michael
1 year ago

It took me about 3 days before I switched to OpenDNS. I've been using it with RoadRunner now for about a year and thank god I don't have to see that terrible page anymore.

Phil Glockner
1 year ago

Good stuff. Thanks for taking the time out to comment!

bmbufalo
12 months ago

I have switched over to OpenDNS for almost a month and love it! I don't even have roadrunner but it has really been nice. Mistyping addresses is almost a thing of the past! Thank you!