Safer, Faster, and Smarter internet access

Safer, Faster, and Smarter internet access by using OpenDNS

If you are not aware of OpenDNS, please do look here first.

OpenDNS protects you from phishing — bad websites trying to steal your personal information. When you try to go to a phishing site, Opendns let you know.
Let's try to configure and use this on Linux.

1) Make sure named is installed on your system.

2) Edit your /etc/resolv.conf file and add following entry
nameserver 127.0.0.1

3) Now edit your /etc/named.conf file, you should have similar to this... in your "options" section of named.conf file

options {
directory "/var/lib/named";
dump-file "/var/log/named_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats";
forwarders { 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };
forward first;
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
allow-query { 127.0.0.1; };
notify no;
};

Here most important part is entry of opendns servers in forwarders section.

4) Now restart your named server.

5) open your browser and type : http://www.opendns.com/welcome/ --> You should see something similar to this ...