Cisco Umbrella
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Cisco Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS) provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet wherever users go.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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United States
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- Online
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ptrippett added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to UK DNS Privacy Project
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prspyrix added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to Spyrix Phone Tracker
PrivacyByDesign added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to keweonDNS
Danilo_Venom added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to Medianova
Danilo_Venom added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to Imperva CDN
jason-mashak added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to Whalebone
emre-bas added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to DNSSense
RemovedUser added Cisco Umbrella as alternative to Firewalla
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Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
OpenDNS includes free web content filtering and parental controls and thereby provides a functionally similar service to Net Nanny, K9 Web Protection and others. You do need to keep your IP address updated with OpenDNS Updater for this feature to work. The advantage is, that your whole network is protected and you do not need to install filtering software on each computer. The filtering is sufficient for us and quite good, but not as good as K9 Web Protection. http://www.opendns.com/home/parentalcontrols
There is are some major problems with OpenDNS. Fires it is not opensource, as the name would imply. Second, as always on the internet, if you are not the customer, you are the product. Using OpenDNS means that you send EVERYTHING of your traffic directly to OpenDNS. This means that OpenDNS then knows every website you are surfing to at what time you did.
The name "OpenDNS" refers to the DNS concept of being open, where queries from any source are accepted.
OpenDNS can work as parental controls by blocking DNS queries, but it does not block offline games and apps.
Unfortunately, OpenDNS FamilyShield allows mixed content sites like Reddit.
This worked fine and was was just not fast enough faster than google though
Unfortunately, as of this moment, there are no IPV6 Family Shield addresses.
My router's TomatoUSB firmware has the ability to set up two DDNS services. OpenDNS is the first entry.
OpenDNS is many things but "more reliable" is not one of them. Use free DNSbench tool to verify this reality for yourself.