On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Craig Falconer<cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz> wrote: > Hadley Rich wrote, On 14/08/09 12:33: >> >> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:29 +1200, Maurice Butler wrote: >>> >>> That's why opendns is so popular >> >> It's also quite a long way away - 200ms from me. > > Yes - that's its main downside. > > However I bet almost everyone here is using a caching nameserver (dnsmasq, > djbdns, bind, or whatever is in your router) so only the first lookup is > slow. > > BTW are you referring to alien and terminator as the slow DNS servers? > Xtra now use dnsc1.xtra.co.nz (202.27.158.40) and dnsc2.xtra.co.nz > (202.27.156.72) for normal usage. If you have the old ones then consider > updating.
Not within my purview, I have no access to the router. I tried changing the dns settings on my desktop to opendns, but of course that upset internal DNS services as opendns know nothing about our lan! It worked as before until the next reboot but then none of the internal apps back to the server worked. I had to call in the external people who mucked around for ages until it dawned on them that internal dns wasn't working, a quick ipconfig /all revealed the problem and I was very very red faced!
