Escape from boredom

I’m now testing OpenDNS at home. You get

• Web Content Filtering
• Anti Phising
• Malware protection
• Whitelist/Blacklist
• Block P2P, and more…

Have not noticed any drops in speed. Ok, a ping to the DNS server of OpenDNS is slower than to my “real” DNS, but that does not tell the whole story, since you do not surf on pages hosted on your DNS-server. It might also depend on the size of the DNS-cache on the server…have I been told…

A bit confused when it comes to verifying if I’m really using OpenDNS using the webpage http://www.opendns.com/welcome/ but it all turned out to be a need to just restart Firefox combined with a few minutes of waiting time.

My brother and sister are visiting us this weekend and while my brother is playing some online game I was checking the web console on my WRT54GL for ways to block the gaming. That was when I noticed that my firmware version was 4.30.7, and the latest was 4.30.15…so I decided that it was time to upgrade. Quite easy in fact, just verify hardware version, then download the .bin-file and upload it using the web console. Should work like a charm I my thought was, but nope…”Upgrade failed”, back to the manual. Noticed “Use Internet Explorer or Safari”, I was using Firefox. Fired up Safari, and tried again, about 20 seconds and “Upgrade Successful”, which also included a reboot causing my brother cursing…double success! 🙂