Fast internet DNS servers
22 June 2005, 01:32 PM
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Fast internet DNS servers
Hi,
Currently I am with Bulldog Broadband and they have a problem with their dns servers preventing users from accessing 95% of websites.
For the interim I am using plusnet's DSN IP addresses which I got from another forum to fix this problem but this led me thinking that perhaps I should be using something even faster to get the real benefit of my broadband.
Can anyone here recommend any UK based DNS IP's that are of a quick response?
Cheers
Currently I am with Bulldog Broadband and they have a problem with their dns servers preventing users from accessing 95% of websites.
For the interim I am using plusnet's DSN IP addresses which I got from another forum to fix this problem but this led me thinking that perhaps I should be using something even faster to get the real benefit of my broadband.
Can anyone here recommend any UK based DNS IP's that are of a quick response?
Cheers
22 June 2005, 01:56 PM
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I use www.zoneedit.com for my DNS and for domains that I look after for several customers. Although not UK based my updates seem to happen within a few minutes on my NTL connection.
Originally Posted by Danny B
Hi,
Currently I am with Bulldog Broadband and they have a problem with their dns servers preventing users from accessing 95% of websites.
For the interim I am using plusnet's DSN IP addresses which I got from another forum to fix this problem but this led me thinking that perhaps I should be using something even faster to get the real benefit of my broadband.
Can anyone here recommend any UK based DNS IP's that are of a quick response?
Cheers
Currently I am with Bulldog Broadband and they have a problem with their dns servers preventing users from accessing 95% of websites.
For the interim I am using plusnet's DSN IP addresses which I got from another forum to fix this problem but this led me thinking that perhaps I should be using something even faster to get the real benefit of my broadband.
Can anyone here recommend any UK based DNS IP's that are of a quick response?
Cheers
22 June 2005, 02:04 PM
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He wants a decent DNS service rather than someone to host his domains.
Your ISP should be providing you with DNS resolution, nobody else is obliged to. If they're not, complain! It's something you kinda need to translate those names into numbers ...
Your ISP should be providing you with DNS resolution, nobody else is obliged to. If they're not, complain! It's something you kinda need to translate those names into numbers ...
22 June 2005, 02:05 PM
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its also possible to store your dns lookups locally. go into this folder (assuming your on xp)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
and open up hosts with wordpad. may be ok as a temp thing as you dont need to go off onto the net to convert a name to an ip. There is an example one already done for you, it may speed things up for the time being but addresses change over time so only use it as a temp measure
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
and open up hosts with wordpad. may be ok as a temp thing as you dont need to go off onto the net to convert a name to an ip. There is an example one already done for you, it may speed things up for the time being but addresses change over time so only use it as a temp measure
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22 June 2005, 02:11 PM
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Bulldog have given me a primary & a scondary but as explained they are experiencing technical difficulties at the moment and the only site that was resolving (I'm at work now) appeared to be Google & adslguide.org !!
Luckily from that site I managed to get two different IP addresses and once I configured my router I was flying again
My question was really to ask if anyone else was using ISP x but using a different DNS server. I have noticed a huge speed difference since using the new IP's and was wondering if I could get web browsing even faster. I am aware that downloading etc will not be improved, only resolving website names.
Cheers
Luckily from that site I managed to get two different IP addresses and once I configured my router I was flying again
My question was really to ask if anyone else was using ISP x but using a different DNS server. I have noticed a huge speed difference since using the new IP's and was wondering if I could get web browsing even faster. I am aware that downloading etc will not be improved, only resolving website names.
Cheers
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22 June 2005, 02:20 PM
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'sudo vi /etc/hosts' on OS X/your unixy variant. DNS affects nothing but name <-> IP resolution, it will not affect your bandwidth - unless Bulldog have broken that as well.
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its also possible to store your dns lookups locally. go into this folder (assuming your on xp)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
and open up hosts with wordpad. may be ok as a temp thing as you dont need to go off onto the net to convert a name to an ip. There is an example one already done for you, it may speed things up for the time being but addresses change over time so only use it as a temp measure
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
and open up hosts with wordpad. may be ok as a temp thing as you dont need to go off onto the net to convert a name to an ip. There is an example one already done for you, it may speed things up for the time being but addresses change over time so only use it as a temp measure
Are you sure its the DNS Servers preventing access, ie what does it return when doing NSLookup (or the Mac Equivalent - Probably dig or some other odd util)
22 June 2005, 03:06 PM
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He can't fix it, it's down to his ISP. It's the Win32 versions of host lookup tools that are odd, nslookup is broken and deprecated anyway. Dig and host are the tools to use.
22 June 2005, 04:04 PM
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[QUOTE=stevencotton]He wants a decent DNS service rather than someone to host his domains.
Thats what www.zoneedit.com do!!.
Thats what www.zoneedit.com do!!.
23 June 2005, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by stevem2k
Try
ns0.colt.net 195.110.64.205
ns1.colt.net 195.110.64.206
Steve
ns0.colt.net 195.110.64.205
ns1.colt.net 195.110.64.206
Steve
!!!! Hey stop using our boxes !!!!
Personally I run an internal DNS server with forwarding for everything else and reverse the order i.e. use the second or third first etc ...
Just do some investigation with regard to latency between where you are and other ISP services. PING would suffice but nslookup/DIG would be better.
regards
rich
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