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OpenDNS offers DNS resolution for consumers and businesses as an alternative to using their Internet service provider's DNS servers. By placing company servers in strategic locations and employing a large cache of the domain names, OpenDNS usually processes queries much more quickly,[1] thereby increasing page retrieval speed. DNS query results are sometimes cached by the local operating system and/or applications, so this speed increase may not be noticeable with every request, but only with requests that are not stored in a local cache.
Other features include a phishing filter, domain blocking and typo correction (for example, typing "wikipedia.og" instead of "wikipedia.org"). By collecting a list of malicious sites, OpenDNS blocks access to these sites when a user tries to access them through their service. OpenDNS also launched PhishTank, where users around the world can submit and review suspected phishing sites.OpenDNS is not open source software, but instead its name refers to the DNS concept of being open, where queries from any source are accepted.
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OpenDNS offers DNS resolution for consumers and businesses as an alternative to using their Internet service provider's DNS servers. By placing company servers in strategic locations and employing a large cache of the domain names, OpenDNS usually processes queries much more quickly,[1] thereby increasing page retrieval speed. DNS query results are sometimes cached by the local operating system and/or applications, so this speed increase may not be noticeable with every request, but only with requests that are not stored in a local cache.
Other features include a phishing filter, domain blocking and typo correction (for example, typing "wikipedia.og" instead of "wikipedia.org"). By collecting a list of malicious sites, OpenDNS blocks access to these sites when a user tries to access them through their service. OpenDNS also launched PhishTank, where users around the world can submit and review suspected phishing sites.OpenDNS is not open source software, but instead its name refers to the DNS concept of being open, where queries from any source are accepted.
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