On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:52:21PM -0500, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > Quoting "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> The name servers that I normall use with my ISP are having a few > >> "flakiness" issues today. I recall seeing a link to a list of name > >> servers that can be used by the public freely (ie. the admins > >> don't get upset if you stick them in your /etc/resolv.conf). > >> > >> Does anyone happen to know of such a list? > > > > Mike Wrote: > > > > Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box? > > and then set your resolv.conf to > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 ??? > > > > Mike > > > > Laptop, small HD, used for dial-up when traveling around. That's the > reason for the "flakiness". Some of the dial up backbone DNS servers > only allow connections from machines dialed in to their local servers > so if I switch from uunet to eli to cwia I end up having to figure out > another set of numbers to use. I'd rather have a set of known open > nameservers that will respond to a DNS request from anywhere.
Install a local nameserver, without upstream forwarders, but with full root.cache. This way, your local DNS will contact the root nameservers directly instead of going through your ISP. Bind will do this, but possibly one of the lightweight caching-only dns servers will also do this. Frank > G > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
