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DNS Servers - one for the experts
« on: 14 August 2008, 18:19:06 »
Hi All

My ISP is Virgin (ex NTL) so if I want quick, reliable surfing I have to look elsewhere for DNS servers. What are you guys using? Anyone using DNSSEC?

I have been using OpenDNS here for a couple of weeks and it's been very good. Fast, reliable and they patched up quickly last week.

TIA.
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Re: DNS Servers - one for the experts
« Reply #1 on: 14 August 2008, 19:41:16 »
I've been fighting DNS issues all day.

Most decent ISPs provide a good DNS service.  The key is, if you manually set them, is to pick 2 geographically diverse ones.  You're ISP should do this for you if you leave it to auto.
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« Reply #2 on: 14 August 2008, 20:28:28 »
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I've been fighting DNS issues all day.
Sorry about that - obviously aware that is what wiped the forum out the other day.

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Most decent ISPs provide a good DNS service.  The key is, if you manually set them, is to pick 2 geographically diverse ones.  You're ISP should do this for you if you leave it to auto.
Not sure . I have been on NTL (now Virgin) on and off for the last 5 years and they have had fairly regular DNS issues that, in my opinion, slowed or prevented surfing. Trasparent proxy issues aside... And The Register reported that large ISPs were slow to patch a few weeks ago.

Perhaps I am unfairly biased but surfing does seem a lot 'smoother' since I swapped DNS server.
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« Reply #3 on: 14 August 2008, 20:32:59 »
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I've been fighting DNS issues all day.
Sorry about that - obviously aware that is what wiped the forum out the other day.

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Most decent ISPs provide a good DNS service.  The key is, if you manually set them, is to pick 2 geographically diverse ones.  You're ISP should do this for you if you leave it to auto.
Not sure . I have been on NTL (now Virgin) on and off for the last 5 years and they have had fairly regular DNS issues that, in my opinion, slowed or prevented surfing. Trasparent proxy issues aside... And The Register reported that large ISPs were slow to patch a few weeks ago.

Perhaps I am unfairly biased but surfing does seem a lot 'smoother' since I swapped DNS server.
The DNS issues today affected 8m users across multiple ISPs ::).  We don't get DNS issues with OOF, as it runs from my servers ;D


When I said decent ISPs have decent DNS, I meant decent ISPs.... ;)
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« Reply #4 on: 14 August 2008, 20:44:29 »
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When I said decent ISPs have decent DNS, I meant decent ISPs.... ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Touche!
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« Reply #5 on: 14 August 2008, 20:58:48 »
I use Tiscalli........for upto 8M download speed......

£15/month........plus they do my phone line for free rental....

So the way I look at it.......BT a tenner/month for line rental....

Im getting surfing for really a fiver/month.....

So carnt really grumble too much when Tiscalli have probs or slow down........not that they tend to do much  :y
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« Reply #6 on: 14 August 2008, 21:01:09 »
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I use Tiscalli........for upto 8M download speed......

£15/month........plus they do my phone line for free rental....

So the way I look at it.......BT a tenner/month for line rental....

Im getting surfing for really a fiver/month.....

So carnt really grumble too much when Tiscalli have probs or slow down........not that they tend to do much  :y
Tiscali do have some talented support people, including one of my old colleagues....    ....but the helpdesk is predicatbly poor...
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Re: DNS Servers - one for the experts
« Reply #7 on: 15 August 2008, 13:00:16 »
im on orange, never had a difficulty except when the BT line broke down and I was on 500Kbps for 3 weeks >:(
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