New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service

knownsense writes "A new DNS system to foil spammers, abusers, and other ills of the Internet is around the corner, reports Wired. It claims to be more user-friendly than your ISP's DNS. Among its claimed advantages . . . Faster myspace(!?), coordination with spamhaus, and typo-squatter squashing. The actual service is called OpenDNS."

Comments

faster?

[mtenhagen]

I did a quick test:

- DNS query -

- dutch hosted .org -

opendns
  Query time: 1228 msec - they have to query upstream
  Query time: 261 msec
  Query time: 192 msec
  Query time: 192 msec
  Query time: 193 msec

my isp
  Query time: 74 msec - they have to query upstream
  Query time: 29 msec
  Query time: 30 msec
  Query time: 29 msec
  Query time: 29 msec

- us hosted .net -

opendns
  Query time: 380 msec - they have to query upstream
  Query time: 192 msec
  Query time: 193 msec
  Query time: 193 msec
  Query time: 193 msec

my isp
  Query time: 184 msec - they have to query upstream
  Query time: 29 msec
  Query time: 30 msec
  Query time: 29 msec
  Query time: 29 msec

- Ping test -
Ping to open dns: 192ms
Ping to my isp: 29ms

- Conclusion -
The dns repsonse is the same as the ping so they will never get faster then my isp.