[Klug-general] dns

[Peter Childs]

Text book solution. Install and run your own.

Thats exactly what your isp is doing anyway!

Its also what should be built into you broardband router.

Look at dnscache also known as djbdns. Bind is a bit of a sledge hammer....

The big advantage of doing it this way is you can have names working on you
lan....

Google run a good set on 8.8.8.8 which is nice and memorable.

Peter
On 29 Jan 2013 12:43, "james morris" <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Ie. In /etc/resolv.conf:
> # OpenDNS servers
> nameserver 208.67.222.222
> nameserver 208.67.220.220
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Emptying resolve.conf gives me unknown host.
>
> Can't I just tell it "look the router knows what it's doing, get it to do
> it you pedantic little s**t".
>
> Best,
> James
>
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