Hi,
Recursion is the service you want to use in this scenario, so not sure what you mean by this to be honest. Actually using Simple DNS you will be using the root nameservers anyway.
To answer the original question, I can't see what difference it makes using your nameservers and the root hints will make over using OpenDNS. OpenDNS has some extra features, like blocking specific sites in a database, as well as having a large DNS cache, which can sometimes increase lookup times, but on a LAN with a DNS server, I find this less of an issue, as people tend to visit the same websites, so the sites that are being visited by the users are cached in the local DNS server already.
If you are a business customer, then I think you need to pay them as well. I looked into it a while ago as a replacement to an on-premis filtering product, so we could get filtering across the board for external users as well, but in the end didn't go with it as it was going to be quite expensive, and they were bing taken over by Cisco!
Andrew.
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From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Steve Nutt [steve@comproom.co.uk]
Sent: 03 March 2016 07:02
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Open DNS in a corporate environment?
Hi,
I don't use OpenDNS, because it allows DNS recursion, which can slow down lookups potentially. I allow recursion, but only for trusted IPs.
I use SimpleDNS for Windows on a 2012 R2 Windows virtual server.
Each to their own I guess.
All the best
Steve
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