[PLUG] comcast customers beware

Erik Lane eriklane at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 02:14:32 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Scott Garman<sgarman at zenlinux.com> wrote:
> Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/1926257/Comcast-the-Latest-ISP-To-Try-DNS-Hijacking?art_pos=11
>
> I saw this landing page the other day and it reminded me when I bought a
> new router recently that I forgot to configure it with OpenDNS:
>
> http://www.opendns.com
>
> It's a free alternative that I find nicer than going though Comcast's one.

In the slashdot article they were saying that OpenDNS does the same
thing as what Comcast is doing. Is there a way to opt out of the
OpenDNS version as well? Are there other advantages to OpenDNS vs.
Comcast?

Thanks,
Erik



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