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DNS Speed Testing Revisted

by Benson Wong

Allison Rhodes, the Community Manager over at OpenDNS was in touch about doing a customer profile on me for the OpenDNS website. I guess they do these kind of things if you blog about them and say nice things. They were particularly interested in commercial users of their service and I blogged about using [...]

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OpenDNS continues to be awesome

by Benson Wong

I first blogged about using OpenDNS when I used it to make my Telus highspeed DSL go 3x faster. Now 6 months later, they’re even better. A couple of days ago I was updating the DNS systems at Sutton and I was having a problem with OpenDNS’s resolvers not updating fast enough. Turns out the [...]

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Have you been getting a lot spam? Read this…

by Benson Wong

When I built the email system for Sutton a couple of years ago spam was an issue but not nearly as bad as it is today. From day one we have been using the Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 to filter all emails coming into our network. A great feature of the Barracuda is that it [...]

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How to make Telus highspeed go 3x faster

by Benson Wong

Last weekend it peaked to about 36C here in Vancouver! So how did I spend such a beautiful hot summer weekend? I made my Telus highspeed go 3x faster by changing my DNS servers from Telus’ defaults to the ones provided by OpenDNS.
I’ve always hated Telus’ DNS servers. They are pitifully slow and this weekend [...]

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