[ale] Mozy is changing the pricing model.

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 10:28 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
> That link gives me a "This connection is untrusted" warning in Firefox
> with the following text:
> 
> twitter.com uses an invalid security certificate.
> 
> The certificate is only valid for the following names:
>    *.opendns.com , opendns.com

Now that is interesting.

Given that OpenDNS and Twitter have nothing to do with each other, this
can only happen because of a problem either on your system/network or
with OpenDNS.  Perhaps OpenDNS failed to resolve twitter.com and
attempted to take you to one of their "let's help you" pages?

I used to use them, but I was pretty displeased; it failed too
frequently and the whole point was to get something that sucked less
than Comcast's DNS servers (though Comcast has vastly improved the
availability and responsiveness of their DNS servers in the past several
years, from what I hear).  I moved to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (the DNS
servers run by Level 3 Communications).  Lots of people have said good
things about the Google DNS servers, but I've never had need to use
them.

Now, I'm running BIND on my network, and it is my primary DNS server for
all my zones and also performs the role of being a caching recursive
name server for the rest of my network.  I've had much better network
performance since I went and did that.

> I do use OpenDNS as my DNS service, but I'm not sure why this is 
> happening.  Also, it's a good idea to give a preview when using an URL
> shortener (your first message) so people know where they're going
> before they click. 

You can always force the URL shortener to preview the link for you ---
every URL shortener has a different way of doing it, of course, but it's
possible for all of them that I am aware of.

	--- Mike
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