[Sussex] modem connection

[Tony Austin]

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> Tony Austin wrote:
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> |>>-----Original Message-----
> |>>From: Gareth Ablett [mailto:Gareth.Ablett at itpserve.co.uk]
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> |><snip>
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> |>>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


Yeah, your right, some work and some don't.  The ISPs that I deal with
most seem to work so I assumed any one would do.

Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
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tony at gigaday.com