On 18-Jan-08, at 1:33 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote:
> How about using a recursive nameserver instead of using forwarder ? > Even if you've to rely on forwarders (probably because of your IP > being > blacklisted in RBLs and couple of DNS servers not responding to you), > you can use public DNS servers rather than ISPs DNS servers. e.g. > OpenNIC[1], > or OpenDNS[2]. OpenNIC also provides some alternate domains not > available with ICANN :) . i am using opendns servers - but still if an ISP goes down the dns gets b0rked > > Also you a simple workaround is that you can do this every 20-30s, > "ping -c2 -I ethX [ip-address]" and see if exitcode is not 0, which > implies ethX is not working. Hmm...? ping will work to check if the isp is down - and we can restart with new config. How to check if it has come up? Dont forget, ping has to go through the firewall and if the ISP in question is not on the firewall, how to find out? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
