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factchecker

@cox.net

Avoid DNS redirection all together...

If you can use them, use the following public DNS servers:

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Or, if you are inclined to, try OpenDNS.

seropith
Rou
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join:2002-11-12
El Paso, TX

So these are public servers, or servers for customer user?

OpenDNS adds a few ms response time.

We should be able to use the ISP's DNS server. Not some servers that we are not technically supposed to use (4.2.*) or sign up for stuff like opendns.

said by factchecker :

If you can use them, use the following public DNS servers:

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Or, if you are inclined to, try OpenDNS.


powerspec88
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said by seropith:

So these are public servers, or servers for customer user?

OpenDNS adds a few ms response time.

We should be able to use the ISP's DNS server. Not some servers that we are not technically supposed to use (4.2.*) or sign up for stuff like opendns.

said by factchecker :

If you can use them, use the following public DNS servers:

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Or, if you are inclined to, try OpenDNS.
You don't have to sign up for opendns, just put in 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 and off you go.

I still use my ISP's DNS servers as its 8ms to them or 60ms to opendns or 4.2.2.x and i see no difference between them and my ISP DNS servers.


dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4

reply to seropith

said by seropith:

So these are public servers, or servers for customer user?

OpenDNS adds a few ms response time.

We should be able to use the ISP's DNS server. Not some servers that we are not technically supposed to use (4.2.*) or sign up for stuff like opendns.

said by factchecker :

If you can use them, use the following public DNS servers:

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Or, if you are inclined to, try OpenDNS.
opendns also has redirects!
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deleteme

join:2002-04-22
Chicago, IL

reply to seropith
I think 4.2.2.* is technically Verizon's DNS (although IP lookup says it's Level3)

...anyway, they are wide-open, and several other ISPs don't seem to think twice about telling their customers to use them when their own DNS is messed up.



factchecker

@cox.net

said by deleteme:

I think 4.2.2.* is technically Verizon's DNS (although IP lookup says it's Level3)
Yes, they belong to Level3, but they are run as a public service to the internet since they are so easy to remember. They are anycasted, so when you use an 4.2.2.x address, you will be routed to the nearest server.


factchecker

@cox.net

reply to dvd536

said by dvd536:

opendns also has redirects!
Those can be turned off on their end through their website. I'd recommend them only if you don't want to use the Level3 DNS servers (why I said, "if you are inclined to").


Pichin

join:2001-07-01
Oviedo, FL

and what is a level 3?


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