On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > An inferior solution is to set my Netgear RP614v4 router to use a DSL > based static ip subnet as the source for DNS queries. This will work > unless the DSL is down. Oops! I need a better solution.
Try to roll your own router which connects to both ISP's and then load share or prioritize or fail-over your searches and other traffic. Or you might want to try something like this: http://www.untangle.com/routing-qos http://www.untangle.com/build-your-own-untangle-server > > Is there any way to use OpenDNS with a residential Comcast cable > account? Have your router/firewall hand out the openDNS addresses with it's DHCP address. > > Comcast really should fix this problem. It is a shame that the DNS > services Comcast offers don't include filtering capabilities. I > should be able to log in to their DNS servers with say an account > number and a password to set filtering options. > > Part of the whole point of having both Cable and DSL based Internet > connections is to have redundancy. If the DNS queries are always > routed through the DSL link, there isn't any redundancy. > > The Netgear router I'm using with the cable modem has a dynamic dns > feature... I wonder if I can use this feature to lock down what my > address is so I can use OpenDNS directly? Yes, I do it already. Register at one of the dynamic dns services that the box uses and then place that login info into the router. Then at OpenDNS add the host by name to OpenDNS. > > I could switch to a business account, but that is a lot of expense > I should think for an otherwise simple and common problem. If you are using both DSL and Cable you probably are paying close to a business account connection. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
