Seconded. We also use unbound with a few tweaks. Anycast is a perfect
solution for Unbound DNS resolvers. We have several scattered across the
network so resolution/DNS cache is closer to the customer than just at our
NOC. It works very, very well.


Adam Kennedy

Network & Systems Engineer

*Watch Communications*

(866) 586-1518

[email protected]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>
wrote:

> *NEVER* hand out an off-net resolver.
>
> *ONLY* hand out your own, on-net resolvers.
>
> I use Unbound on Debian.
>
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> *From: *"Colton Conor" <[email protected]>
> *To: *"WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
> *Sent: *Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:56:42 PM
> *Subject: *[WISPA] DNS Name Resolver for WISP
>
> What dns name solvers do you use to hand out to your customers via DHCP
> and why? Today we just hand out Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as a name
> resolvers. I recently learned about OpenDNS's free service for homes where
> a home user can monitor and potentially block certain websites, but that
> would require the home to signup at open dns, and then enter open DNS in
> their router. However if we handed out OpenDNS's IPs instead of googles,
> and provided a gateway, then that would remove that step of the client
> having to enter opendns IPs into their router right?
>
> Does OpenDNS have a service for ISP's? That gives us insight as to where
> traffic on our network is heading based dns lookups? I know about Netflow
> etc, but doing this though DNS seems like a cool option as well. We
> wouldn't want to block anything as an ISP, but it would be useful to know
> the top visited site by our customers is facebook.com for example.
>
> If not OpenDNS, then is there some other hosted DNS service for ISP's?
>
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