Name resolution

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jul 5 04:03:29 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> might I suggest trying Google Public DNS servers? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4
> are the IP addresses. My ISP apparently runs some sort of filtering
> and occasionally I have problems with their DNS, so I switched to
> Google and that pretty much resolves the issue for me. :D

I run my own DNS server, for a similar reason:  Every ISP I've tried has
a crappy DNS server.  Before I did that, I had to put some domain's IP
into my hosts file, because their DNS server usually gave no answer.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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