[nzlug] dns woes...

[Mathew Carley]

I use OpenDNS, as I change networks more about as often as I eat hot 
dinners. 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222 (sometimes the IP addresses 
can be picky to find on the website). It's nice to get consistent (and 
often quicker than local ISPs) resolutions no matter where you are in 
the world.

The only downside is that it redirects you to their custom search page 
whenever it cant find a page, so sometimes you'll need to clear your 
local dns and browswer cache or something to get it back to "try and 
find this website" mode - especially when you're transferring domains to 
new servers and whatnot. Otherwise, its pretty solid.

I don't know what the purpose of signing up for the service is, but I 
have an account there. I think it's really only useful if you manage a 
network (or something), and you can use it to filter out certain 
websites, I guess...

Mathew

Jeff Graham wrote:
> Steve,
>
> You could try OpenDNS. Never used it myself, anybody have any
> experience with it?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendns
>
> On 12/18/07, Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz> wrote:
>   
>> here's a goody. It looks like my (US) service provider has got the odd dns problem - like dead silence and nothing will resolve. It's stopping my mail server dead.
>>
>> Would you recommend using a local dns server to resolve these local services, and handing everything else off to the SP's dns servers for everything else?
>>
>> At least it would keep the mail running.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
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