[_Lemon_]

I heard years ago that Level 3 were trying to encourage people (non-customers?) not to use these DNS servers. I guess this is one way to ask people not to use them.

Having said that, 8.8.8.8, Google DNS, has been planted firmly in my memory as my go to "is this machine up?" IP.

[tracker1]

My issue is that level3's dns has always been very fast, and more importantly, up... When google's dns is slow, level3 is fast... when my isp's dns goes down or wonky, level3's is up... I'd pay them $10/year to use them without the ads.

[karlshea]

Why not use OpenDNS then? If you have an account you can configure them to behave however you'd like.

[ds9]

And then they have your entire history of internet activity, matched to you name, address and CC number. Fine if all you want is reliablility. For those who want to imped surveillance it is as bad as the ISP.

[pyre]

@karlshea was responding to @tracker1 who said that he/she would pay for the service. If someone is already willing to pay for the service, then I doubt this their major concern. You responded as if @karlshea was ignoring some requirement of the parent post...

[karlshea]

Their DNS-only service is free.

[JohnTHaller]

So does Google, for what it's worth.

[eli]

No, they very clearly and explicitly promise otherwise https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#privacy

[jlgaddis]

Heh, ironically enough, OpenDNS hijacks NXDOMAINs.

[dsl]

http://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/premium-dns/