[ale] Recommended public DNS server

[Chris Farris]

Don't use Earthlink DNS.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/03/1359221
http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/08/handling_dead_domains_1.php

As an employee I must include this disclaimer:

The preceding comments are of an intelligent nature and therefore 
reflect in no way the position or opinion of my employer.

Chris

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 23:20 -0400, aaron 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).
> 
> Earthlink:
> 207.69.188.185-187
> Emory:
> 170.140.1.1; 170.140.2.1
> Speakeasy:
> 216.26.175.2
> 216.27.41.2
> 
> I have never seen Earthlink DNS servers go down. Emory has been pretty
> solid for the past 6-7 years. Speakeasy had one outage that was router
> related and resolved in about 20 minutes.
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> peace
>> aaron
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