[ale] Recommended public DNS server

Michael Still stillwaxin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 08:36:59 EDT 2006


A site that I haven't seen mentioned is OpenDNS.  Some might not agree
with the extra features they provide, but as a recursing server
provider they appear fast.  The extra features can be turned off as
well.

http://www.opendns.com/start/unix.php

On 9/9/06, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>
> My Comcast service went out briefly Friday night.  Upon investigating, I was
> able to confirm that I still had connectivity with ping to a known IP number,
> but the problem was that my assigned DNS servers were down.
>
> The incident made me realized that it would be handy to have some fallback IP
> numbers to plug in, so I'm looking for recommendations on public DNS service
> (or commercial DNS servers who don't mind occasional guests).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> peace
> aaron
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