I do the same. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Gonzales" <[email protected]> To: "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> Cc: "Jax-LUG" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 8, 2010 2:43:17 PM Subject: Re: DNS server recommendation
I prefer local DNS for local cache and local addresses with forwarders to OpenDNS for everything else. That's been optimal for me. Sent from my iPad On Nov 8, 2010, at 2:28 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:19 -0500, Michael Potts wrote: >> I use OpenDNS with Google public DNS as a backup. >> >> OpenDNS has alot of nifty features like blocklists and filters. Never gone >> down for me. > > Local DNS servers can speed up your surfing and other network traffic. > Since it doesn't have to do remote queries for some stuff. ;) > > A local caching DNS server can be good enough, but there are other > things you can do with your own local DNS server. Like serving public or > private IPs depending on where the query originates from. > > Allot of people are really into using third party DNS services. I have > never been a fan of that, and always done my own DNS in house. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
