Comments on: OpenDNS – there may be trouble ahead http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/07/08/opendns-there-may-be-trouble-ahead/ IT mixology and other thoughts about tech, life the universe and everything Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Swan http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/07/08/opendns-there-may-be-trouble-ahead/#comment-259 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:33:57 +0000 http://thestateofme.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-259 Thanks David. I’d love to hear more about the mechanisms that you use to resolve these conflicts (e.g. how does dad beats son)? The examples that you give are quite closed environments – dad knows son, IT guy and sales guy work for same firm. What happens in a more public or communal environment? In the club example that I use above then I’m sure that people would go and complain to the front desk, who probably wouldn’t have a clue what was going on. When things eventually get escalated to an IT guy who knows his DHCP from his DNS would the answer be to work with you guys (how?) or drop OpenDNS?

]]> By: David Ulevitch http://blog.thestateofme.com/2009/07/08/opendns-there-may-be-trouble-ahead/#comment-258 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:26:56 +0000 http://thestateofme.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-258 Hi Chris. We do have some solutions for this, and it does occasionally happen where we have two people trying to claim management rights over a given IP. We don’t let ISPs typically assert their right, we tend to favor end-users. You’d be surprised though, typically there is a hierarchy of who wins (dad beats son, IT guys beats sales guys, etc.) that sorts itself out without us having to really get involved. Good feedback though, definitely something we’re working to improve and hope to avoid as an issue as we get larger.

-David

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