I have changed my DNS to that 208.222.000.00 ? thing.
has anyone else done this?
I don't go anywhere nasty but I do alot of https connections.
can they see or keylog anything?

I signed up with the website but I don't know if it does any good.
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Out of curiosity, what were you hoping to gain by signing up with these people?

Can they "see" in the sense of can they tell where on the internet you're going? Absolutely. You're asking their servers to resolve names to IPs. They could certainly inspect that activity, should they feel like it.

Can they keylog you? Not unless you installed something from them (while running as an admin) and the entire organisation is very shady indeed.

It sounds like you've got misgivings

Originally Posted by H2SO4

Out of curiosity, what were you hoping to gain by signing up with these people?

Can they "see" in the sense of can they tell where on the internet you're going? Absolutely. You're asking their servers to resolve names to IPs. They could certainly inspect that activity, should they feel like it.

Can they keylog you? Not unless you installed something from them (while running as an admin) and the entire organisation is very shady indeed.

It sounds like you've got misgivings

Now I can't sleep thank you
I'm going to delete my acct, if I can.
but THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gather your question is more about privacy than about DNS, so here goes.

Don't consider ANY surfing as anonymous. Your US-based ISP is required for some time now to log all activity (Yes, I said, *required* as in law).

This info is supposed to only be available via a court order.

The only way to avoid such pitfalls is to strong encrypt your datastream to a system that acts as an anonymous proxy. This, too, is subject to the same laws, even though some claim they will not release your info. (They have to know your IP info, else you couldn't connect )

- JC

Originally Posted by JCPlus

I gather your question is more about privacy than about DNS, so here goes.

Don't consider ANY surfing as anonymous. Your US-based ISP is required for some time now to log all activity (Yes, I said, *required* as in law).

This info is supposed to only be available via a court order.

The only way to avoid such pitfalls is to strong encrypt your datastream to a system that acts as an anonymous proxy. This, too, is subject to the same laws, even though some claim they will not release your info. (They have to know your IP info, else you couldn't connect )

- JC

Thank You JCPLUS

My comcast braodband does not interact well with my Linksys wrt54g router but when I use the OpenDNS addresses... all is well.

The only down side to that is that I can't print on my wireless printer... but that's an entirely new thread