A couple other Telus DNS addresses are 198.80.55.1 198.161.156.1
These seem to work really well. You may want to edit your /etc/resolv.conf file and add them to the beginning of the list. I haven't had problems resolving since doing that. Neil On Tuesday 01 July 2003 10:54, Chris Wallace wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi Shawn, > >I'm also on Telus DSL package and have a number of boxes behind an IPCop >firewall and yes, I have seen the same behaviour. > >For me, it was a simple matter of providing a few alternate DNS servers, >seeing as the ones that were being assigned to me by Telus DHCP had "issues" >(in typical Telus fashion). > >I have found that 199.185.220.36 seems to yield the most stability for me, > but YMMV ;-) > >Anyway, if all else fails, call Telus tech support (shudder) and ask them to >provide you with alternate DNS servers and you should be 'gold'. > >Regards, > >Chris > >On July 1, 2003 12:30 am, Shawn wrote: >> I'm seeing some weird things going on with my network. >> >> I've just finished checking and reinstalling the IPCop firewall - and saw >> the symptoms appear again immediately (ping www.google.ca failed to >> resolve). However, a few minutes later, it's resolving with no problems. >> The obvious assumption is that my server isn't setup right. But I've just >> checked it's hosts file, and resolv.conf file - hosts has entries for my >> local computers, and resolv.conf has entries for my name servers (well, >> Telus' servers). Should I not have my firewall computer in the >> resolv.conf file? Would that be the cause of this sort of trouble? I've >> also checked the default gateway, and it's set correctly. >> >> Has anyone else running IPCop seen the same sort of behaviour? >> >> Thanks for any tips. >> >> Shawn > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE/AbzFAvR8j4tXQKERArxmAJ9ie4qMxI8k7L/Hr7oLNn9d5wgjnwCeI1NV >UbG2VZKufjnk3IFylvuuhBs= >=+6vB >-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
