I’ve had a few customers ask me recently about how we compare to OpenDNS. We only run across Open DNS once in a while, typically for extremely price-conscious customers. But cheap comes at a cost and when the solution is insufficient the savings can’t be justified.
Open DNS works by using their cloud-based DNS servers as URL filter databases. Since the huge majority of web requests require DNS resolution to match an IP address to a URL domain name, they provide filtering by having an objectionable URL map to a block page location rather than to the web site.
OpenDNS sells to a lot of schools, so let’s look at a relevant example...
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