<p dir="ltr">Text book solution. Install and run your own. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thats exactly what your isp is doing anyway!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Its also what should be built into you broardband router.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Look at dnscache also known as djbdns. Bind is a bit of a sledge hammer....</p>
<p dir="ltr">The big advantage of doing it this way is you can have names working on you lan....</p>
<p dir="ltr">Google run a good set on 8.8.8.8 which is nice and memorable. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Peter</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Jan 2013 12:43, "james morris" <<a href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com">jwm.art.net@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I've been using Arch Linux for... some time now... and some time ago... something changed which meant (AFAICT) I had to specify which DNS to use. Knowing next to nothing about it I used OpenDNS.<br>
<br></div>Ie. In /etc/resolv.conf:<br># OpenDNS servers<br>nameserver 208.67.222.222<br>nameserver 208.67.220.220<br><br></div>Over the past day or so I've not been able to load Facebook. I can only conclude it's because of using OpenDNS and some searches reveal it as a possible cause. I have booted into Debian on the same machine - which doesn't use OpenDNS and viewing Facebook presented no problem.<br>
<br></div>Supposedly, my ISP (the lovely BT) provides DNS but the obvious google search doesn't really reveal anything which appears authoritative (in my mind at least).<br><br></div>Emptying resolve.conf gives me unknown host.<br>
<br></div>Can't I just tell it "look the router knows what it's doing, get it to do it you pedantic little s**t".<br><br></div>Best,<br>James<br></div>
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