OpenDNS

OpenDNS makes the Internet experience safer, faster and smarter for you and everyone using your network.

Second, if you type the address of a nonexistent site, OpenDNS throws up the equivalent of Google's "Did you mean? "

Even if you use only one or two of its features, you'll find that OpenDNS makes your Web life better.

In fact, had you been using OpenDNS in 2008, the Time Warner crash would not have affected you at all.

All of this OpenDNS goodness is free, automatic and always improving. Surely there's a catch.

All of this OpenDNS goodness is free, automatic and always improving.

At OpenDNS. com, the step-by-step instructions take all of two minutes to complete.

OpenDNS is faster Two things make DNS really fast: a big cache and a good network. We have both.

Dynamic IPs are common, and OpenDNS supports dynamic IP addresses for networks.

That new address directs your computers' Web requests to OpenDNS's lookup service.

The biggest realistic challenge may be setting up OpenDNS in the first place.

At OpenDNS. com, you'll find illustrated instructions for each router brand.

PARENTAL CONTROLS The latest OpenDNS feature is site-blocking.

But OpenDNS caches the entire Web. Every Web site appears slightly faster.

How can OpenDNS possibly track every Web site on earth and put it into the right 57 categories?

But I was amused to learn that the engineers at OpenDNS subscribe to those lists, too.

When you have more than one dynamic IP network in your account, you must send the OpenDNS network label in the hostname parameter.

In this case, the topic is your Web browsing, and the magic wand is a free service called OpenDNS.

Speed up your Internet browsing by using an external DNS server such as OpenDNS.

Make sure you have a label for each OpenDNS network in your account.

How, for example, does OpenDNS make money?

OpenDNS intercepts and blocks your efforts to visit the fake sites. It works like a charm.

OpenDNS intercepts and blocks your efforts to visit the fake sites.