X-To: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Samuel!
29 May 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> I didn't know that there were ISPs that would knowingly permit just
SH> anybody to use their Domain Name Servers.
Hmmm ... knowingly :)
Generally some don't bother to block traffic to their DNS servers.
SH> It might not be a good idea at all to use some other ISP's Domain Name
SH> Servers. Doing so might result in giving the other ISP access to your
SH> login and password and other confidential data maintained and normally
SH> safeguarded by your own ISP.
No it might not.
Nameservers do exactly one thing.
They resolve Domainnames into IPs.
That's it, they do not get any confidential information from you, expect
which domainnames you access.
>> It is always better to use your ISP dns servers because they answer
>> faster , but you may call your ISP with lsppp and before you hang up
>> go to the ip-up.bat before it is deleted and you will see the dns
>> numbers, write them down, insert them in pppdrc.cfg, wattcp.cfg,
>> config.tel, arachne.cfg etc.and you can use epppd.
SH> I've been there and tried that, and I have already mentioned that
SH> you cannot depend on this technique in the case of an ISP that relies
SH> on dynamic DNS assignments.
It should usually work.
They have a pool of DNS servers
eg (s1,s2,s3,s4,s5)
you "get" 2 servers from the pool.
If you are assigned s1 and s2 and you override it with s5 it should work.
(as long as s5 still exists)
If it does not work, you still can try DNS Servers from other ISPs.
(except if the ISP you dial into, blocks outgoing DNS traffic)
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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