On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com>wrote:
> hi, > > on occasion (or rather very often) the BSNL DNS on my broadband or 3G > does not work. So I routinely add opendns name servers to my > resolv.conf. Now and then this behaves funny - all sites are blocked. I > find my own blog site is currently blocked as spam! (of course there are > a couple of jerks spamming it at present ;-)). irctc site is also > blocked! Has anyone faced this? Any remedy? > > I've faced such issues with DNSes of all ISPs. Instead of editing resolv.conf, use prepend directive in DHCP to use dns servers of your choice in preference to BSNL's. On Ubuntu, I use static DNS setting with DHCP for address only to resolve this issue. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
