IGGY
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Re: Alternate DNS Servers???
Is just me? Or isn't it sort of sad when an employee of the company advocates using another companies DNS server? Or am I just wanting to read more into this? |
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BeesTea
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| said by IGGY  :
Is just me? Or isn't it sort of sad when an employee of the company advocates using another companies DNS server? Or am I just wanting to read more into this?
Apparently you are. Insight doesn't run any of it's own nameservers.
-BeesT
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IGGY
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| Yes. But not promoting the AT&T nameservers - when that is what your company users. Tends to make you wonder if those who work for the company tend to not see value in using those nameservers. It's one of those things of - if the AT&T nameservers are good enough for the customer - why would you want to use another companies? Maybe this makes no sense to you - but makes perfect sense to me.
If you don't value part of the product your employed to upkeep or sell. Why should a customer see value in something you don't as an employee?
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BeesTea
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| said by IGGY :
If you don't value part of the product your employed to upkeep or sell. Why should a customer see value in something you don't as an employee?
I don't know what robbym627 values or doesn't. I do know that someone saying that another dns server, that they don't maintain, has lower latency than another, that they also don't maintain, doesn't really reflect on what they think of the service that they do maintain. That's just me I guess.
Personally, I think you're just jaded at the company and frankly I couldn't imagine giving money to an organization that I felt was screwing me so badly. Other than the IRS of course, who would promptly throw my butt in jail if I stopped. Outside of that, I don't give my money to people/organizations/companies that make me feel the way insight apparently makes you feel.
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rchwalk
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Peachtree City, GA
| BeesTea,
You mention that you run your own DNS Server behind your firewall/router. Can you point me in the right direction to get my own up and running? I have a Solaris Sparc Sun server and would like to get a caching DNS Server up and running. So far I have not yet been able to find a good example of the cache.db etc..... files.
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BeesTea
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| I'm using BIND 9 with split views. One view is for external queries and is a forward with cache. The other is a fake top level domain for my home network (machinename.home.lan). The BIND doc's can get kind of thick.
»www.isc.org/sw/bind/
If you use bind, you can probably get away with using the TLDP docs.
»www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
There's also a slew of other caching specific DNS implementations should you not feel like wrestling the BIND bear.
»freshmeat.net/browse/149/
Cheers,
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rchwalk
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Peachtree City, GA
| BeesTea,
Thank you for the info! I will see how it goes. I have tried bind in the past but the documentation is a little to in depth for a beginner like me. Seems that I have the named daemon working but my windows machines do not like it. They complain that:
c:\>nslookup www.google.com
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.168.9: Non-existent domain
Server: vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net
Address: 4.2.2.2
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.akadns.net
Address: 64.233.171.104
Aliases: www.google.com
So I will check my config files again. I know it is something to do with my local domain configuration. Since the solaris server uses the named daemon to service dns lookups without a problem:
ultra10: /var/named: nslookup www.google.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.akadns.net
Address: 64.233.171.104
Aliases: www.google.com
Thanks again for the documentation. I will look it over and attempt to fix this.
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rchwalk
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Peachtree City, GA
| BeesTea,
Thank you! The site »www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html was very informative. I now have my BIND caching dns server up and running. I had so many little things wrong it wasn't funny. Now they have been corrected and my DNS server is now working. I just need to "tune" it to the list you have listed above rather than using internic's server list.
Thanks again!
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