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  1. 03-18-2008, 09:36 AM #1
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    Another DNS

    Hey there all,
    sometimes, my ISP drops their DNS server, much more often than they drop the internet service. So, at times that they drop DNS, is there someplace else i can put in resolv.conf ? Like a public DNS or something ?

    thanks
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  2. 03-18-2008, 10:17 AM #2
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    You could run a cache-only DNS server on your local machine, it will poll the root servers for info and save it locally for a while.
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    cool thanks, any simple one you would reccomend?
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  4. 03-18-2008, 11:25 AM #4
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    You could also switch to using OpenDNS for your DNS servers. My ISP had the same problem, the DNS servers would frequently drop out so I just changed over to the OpenDNS ones insted.
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  5. 03-18-2008, 12:06 PM #5
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    Depending on what distro you are using... with Ubuntu and Debian, you can just "apt-get install bind9" and it will set it up automatically. You just have to change /etc/resolv.conf to point to localhost -

    nameserver localhost
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  6. 03-18-2008, 08:56 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by ph34r
    nameserver localhost
    Which will only work if "localhost" can be looked up in DNS.

    (Well, or /etc/hosts if you use that. I'm probably one of only a few people that doesn't, which is why I'm posting this.)

    I do think that using 127.0.0.1 is safer, though.
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  7. 03-28-2008, 02:02 PM #7
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  8. 03-28-2008, 07:05 PM #8
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    ...If you don't mind OpenDNS's policy of modifying your query and pointing you to a redirect server when it thinks you "made a mistake", that is. I, personally, would hate that. (See the sections on "Typo Correction" and "Shortcuts" on that page to see what I'm talking about.)

    Sure, you can supposedly turn that off, but you don't have to worry about it at all if you just run your own server.
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