{"id":3845,"date":"2011-03-13T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:51:55","slug":"want-safer-surfing-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"Want safer surfing at home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now testing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendns.com\/\">OpenDNS<\/a> at home. You get <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web Content Filtering<\/li>\n<li>Anti Phising<\/li>\n<li>Malware protection<\/li>\n<li>Whitelist\/Blacklist<\/li>\n<li>Block P2P, and more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have not noticed any drops in speed. Ok, a ping to the DNS server of OpenDNS is slower than to my &#8220;real&#8221; 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&#8230;have I been told&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A bit confused when it comes to verifying if I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now testing OpenDNS at home. You get Web Content Filtering Anti Phising Malware protection Whitelist\/Blacklist Block P2P, and more&#8230; Have not noticed any drops in speed. Ok, a ping to the DNS server of OpenDNS is slower than to my &#8220;real&#8221; DNS, but that does not tell the whole story, since you do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13763,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/13763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}