[Sussex] modem connection

[Jon Fautley]

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Tony Austin wrote:
|>
|>>-----Original Message-----
|>>From: Gareth Ablett [mailto:Gareth.Ablett at itpserve.co.uk]
|>
|><snip>
|>
|>>Good luck I don't know much on the subject to help tbh.
|>>
|>>
|>>>By the way can anyone explain to me what the entries in
|>>
|>>/etc/resolv.conf
|>>
|>>>are?
|>>
|>>As far as I'm aware these are locations for naming servers ie.
|>>Converting www.blah.com to 255.255.255.255 and so for finding you
|>>location.
|>>
|>
|>Thanks Gareth,
|>the question is: are they servers in the outside world or are they
|>internal
|>addresses, ie. network router or DNS server on my PC?
|
|
| I suggest that you use your ISP's DNS servers unless you really want to
| run your own (I don't and I have 5 boxes on my LAN).  Actually, you can
| use any ISP's DNS servers - for example, my /etc/resolv.conf has:-
|
| nameserver 195.82.96.40
| nameserver 195.82.96.6
|
| which are my my ISP's but would work for you too.


*bzzt*... nay :(

A lot of ISP's will NOT allow other people to use their DNS servers for
recursive queries. What with all the various BIND exploits that have
been floating around over the past few years, and the extra bandwidth
involved in DNS requests, most ISP's now only allow people on their
subnets to use their DNS servers, same as with SMTP servers.

There's even been roumers of Demon stopping people doing recursive
queries through their DNS servers (they're one of the ISP's that
currently allow it). It'll be a sad day if that happens - having never
owned a Demon account, I still know both their DNS server addresses off
the top of my head :|

Jon
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