[Klug-general] ISPs

James Blake jimmyblake at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 15:40:42 UTC 2009


Just a heads up, there is an unpatched critical bug in Bind 9 at the  
moment.  Announced two days ago:

https://www.isc.org/node/474

James

--  Sent from the mobile device of James Blake

On 30 Jul 2009, at 15:01, Twigathy <twigathy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yup, I'm running bind9 on my server... it's nice having 10-20ms
> lookups for things ;)
>
> T
>
> 2009/7/30 Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/30 Twigathy <twigathy at gmail.com>:
>>> Eclipse are okay.... I used to be with them. They cap downloads and
>>> uploads though, which isn't so nice. However, they do offer a routed
>>> subnet if you want multiple IP addresses on your network!
>>>
>>> Currently I'm with be (bethere.co.uk I think, [warning,  
>>> eyebleedingly
>>> terrible site-redesign]) on a 3 month(?) rolling contract. They are
>>> very quick, but have had routing problems in the past and also they
>>> have possibly the slowest DNS servers on the planet. OpenDNS  
>>> (yuck) or
>>> some other DNS server is a good idea when on be.
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>>> 2009/7/30 rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk <rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk>:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>      Since the takeover of tiscali by one2one I have noticed a
>>>> marked deterioration in service.
>>>> Thought about virgin  but one of their providers is tiscali and  
>>>> they
>>>> remained silent when I queried this Can Anybody recommend a good  
>>>> cheap
>>>> broadband provider Unlimited Slow download for preference. A Web  
>>>> search
>>>> came up with "Eclipse" which I have never heard of but seemed to  
>>>> fit my
>>>> requirements. Any body had any dealings with them?
>>>>         All suggestions  gratefully received
>>>>                                               Rich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> DNS hmm You could always run you own, If you really want quick.
>> nothing easier just install Bind. It should just work (tm) unless you
>> want DNS round your own Subnet (which will take a bit more setup :)
>>
>> Peter
>>
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