Kansas City, Missouri Switches to OpenDNS for All Employees, Makes Network Safer, Faster, Smarter and More Reliable
SysAdmin Finds OpenDNS to be Significantly Faster, Recommends OpenDNS to Peers
Mar 3, 2008 — San Francisco -- OpenDNS, the award-winning DNS service that makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced the City of Kansas City, Missouri has switched to OpenDNS from the DNS service it previously got from its ISP. The City of Kansas City, Missouri is a municipal government with more than 3,000 employees accessing the Internet through its network. Now providing DNS service to more than 3 million Internet users worldwide, OpenDNS is the world's largest, fastest-growing DNS service.
The City of Kansas City, the largest city in the state of Missouri, switched to OpenDNS initially because DNS resolution service from its ISP was slow and becoming increasingly problematic. After making the switch, however, systems administrator Will Metcalf learned of OpenDNS's industry leading Web content filtering. Already using a commercial Web content filtering tool for his network, Metcalf was frustrated with seeing repeated miscategorization of sites and quickly found OpenDNS to be significantly more accurate and comprehensive.
"Queries are much faster, and being able to add blocks for multiple networks from a single interface is a real time saver. If I need to block the latest domains hosting the storm worm, for example, it's no problem," said Metcalf. "The price was right and after an initial trial we found OpenDNS worked very well. Our commercial filtering solution does not block phishing domains of any kind so having the option to block sites from PhishTank is an added bonus."
About the City of Kansas City, Missouri
The City of Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri with a population of nearly one half of a million people.
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Based in San Francisco, the company operates a large distributed network that powers a new kind of recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides all Internet users increased security, reliability and performance. OpenDNS is thoroughly committed to building and operating the best DNS platform in the world and to improving the Internet. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: http://www.opendns.com
The City of Kansas City, the largest city in the state of Missouri, switched to OpenDNS initially because DNS resolution service from its ISP was slow and becoming increasingly problematic. After making the switch, however, systems administrator Will Metcalf learned of OpenDNS's industry leading Web content filtering. Already using a commercial Web content filtering tool for his network, Metcalf was frustrated with seeing repeated miscategorization of sites and quickly found OpenDNS to be significantly more accurate and comprehensive.
"Queries are much faster, and being able to add blocks for multiple networks from a single interface is a real time saver. If I need to block the latest domains hosting the storm worm, for example, it's no problem," said Metcalf. "The price was right and after an initial trial we found OpenDNS worked very well. Our commercial filtering solution does not block phishing domains of any kind so having the option to block sites from PhishTank is an added bonus."
About the City of Kansas City, Missouri
The City of Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri with a population of nearly one half of a million people.
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Based in San Francisco, the company operates a large distributed network that powers a new kind of recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides all Internet users increased security, reliability and performance. OpenDNS is thoroughly committed to building and operating the best DNS platform in the world and to improving the Internet. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: http://www.opendns.com
