On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:01:59 +1200 Ben Aitchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One is 4.2.2.2, and another is 208.67.222.222. Both of these are > hosted in multiple places (in the US predominantly). And performance > tends to be reasonably good. Although there's a short latency increase > for using a DNS server in the US ... it should be nothing like 1 second > let alone 10! > > Ben. Sorry Ben, please don't use 4.2.2.2 - that's one of level 3's dns servers, and, while it works, isn't really there for public use. It was published as a quick fix for ( I think ) a d-link router problem, and must've really hacked them off... though to their credit, they did honour all requests. The other address is one of opendns's, and they are happy for you to use them. Another one of theirs is 208.67.220.220. I recommend using those 2 as forwarders in a cacheing name server setup if your isps name servers are dodgy. I have done so with no problem at all since ihug fell apart on me a month or 2 ago. Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
