On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Remy Blank<remy.bl...@pobox.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: >> >> 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) >> 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to >> advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... >> 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every invalid address resolve to an >> address anyway, which when viewed in a web browser goes to an "error" >> page (full of advertisements and "sponsored links"). You never know if >> a hostname is really invalid or not, which makes troubleshooting >> non-HTTP connections interesting. > > Time to switch to http://www.opendns.com/ ? > > (I haven't used them, but they seem to be recommended a lot theses days)
I'm already not using my ISP's DNS server. I was just outlining my reasons for that (in case the fact that I don't use theirs is causing my problem). :)
