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OpenDNS Updater

OpenDNS Updater

Update OpenDNS dynamic IP information.

Version:  2.7

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works, but several issues

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: garbanzito-real Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 12:35 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

this tool takes much more memory than its tiny task should need; over 100MB of private memory after it ran for a few hours on my Intel/10.4.11 system; this might be a memory leak; for something that runs 24/7 this is way too much for me...

also, since it is a free app with no implicit contract, and since i'm giving it my OpenDNS password, i really think it should be open source so that i can be comfortable what it's doing with my info...

also some smaller problems:

  • Preferences window gets lost behind other windows -- once another window is in front of it, can't command-tab to it, can't resurface it by selected Preferences from the menu item, must hide everything or use Expose
  • About window sometimes displays behind current app, result is similar problem to Preferences window
  • after manually running Check for Updates, the menu item's menus are permanently greyed out
finally, a feature request: new IP notification through Growl   
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works, but several issues - zwei--2008

You might want to recheck the memory. For some reason during the first run it takes more memory than it normally does, but under normal unattended operation it should use less than 7mb of RAM. Maybe you were looking at Virtual Memory.

I no longer own the code (OpenDNS does), so it's up to them what direction they want to take this app. As for your secure information ...it's stored using blowfish encryption and is sent to the OpenDNS server via a secure https:// request. The info is only called upon during an update request.

the menu items being grayed out is a known bug. It only happens if you open the dropdown menu again while the update check is being run.

If you want Growl notifications, I suggest you look into DNS-O-Matic Updater. I still have control over that code and you can use DNS-O-Matic to update your OpenDNS account (along with many other services) ...check out dnsomatic.com ...if you have an OpenDNS acct, you automatically have a dnsomatic.com account. It uses the same login info as your OpenDNS account.

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