Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 15:53 +0800, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > > > As suggested by Mohan Sundaram, do not edit resolv.conf (which is > > re-generated by Network Manager in KDE) but set DNS in your Network > > Manager (or other equivalent ap

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > As suggested by Mohan Sundaram, do not edit resolv.conf (which is > re-generated by Network Manager in KDE) but set DNS in your Network > Manager (or other equivalent application of your desktop). Or edit the /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to add

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:52 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > Having said that, I am not a general user. My network access points > are fairly well defined and, are in most cases configured by me. By > which I mean that I don't need to face the name resolution issues > Kenneth mentions relate

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > 4.2.2.2 is the default secondary dns that bsnl provides - doesn't work. > As for 8.8.8.x, rms would not approve. There are ISPs other than BSNL who suggest the same. 4.2.2.2 is a good one to "test" a DNS setup. But it wouldn't be a goo

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:13 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ma Sivakumar > wrote: > >> I have BSNL broadband and use 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS servers. > Face > >> no problems as you describe. > > >

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ma Sivakumar wrote: >> I have BSNL broadband and use 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS servers. Face >> no problems as you describe. > > You may not want to use 4.2.2.2 as your primary DNS Any particular

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:39 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves >> wrote: >> > actually the best solution is to run one's own cacheing only >> nameserver >> > - I have been too lazy to se

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:39 +0530, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > > actually the best solution is to run one's own cacheing only > nameserver > > - I have been too lazy to set this up so far ... > > Should not take more than 15 mins of your

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > actually the best solution is to run one's own cacheing only nameserver > - I have been too lazy to set this up so far ... Should not take more than 15 mins of your time to setup a local DNS server. Suggest you do this and solve this is

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a knowledgebase software

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Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:08 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ma Sivakumar > wrote: > > I have BSNL broadband and use 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS servers. > Face > > no problems as you describe. > > You may not want to use 4.2.2.2 as your primary DNS how di

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > I have BSNL broadband and use 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS servers. Face > no problems as you describe. You may not want to use 4.2.2.2 as your primary DNS -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay ___

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 09:42 +0530, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > > actually the best solution is to run one's own cacheing only > nameserver > > - I have been too lazy to set this up so far ... > > As suggested by Mohan Sundaram, do not edit resolv.conf (which is > re-generated by Network Manager in KDE)

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 09:27 +0530, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >> > 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.

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 09:28 +0530, Arun SAG wrote: > > >a couple of jerks spamming it at present ;-)). irctc site is also > > >blocked! Has anyone faced this? Any remedy? > > > > This is because your IP address is dynamic. Registered users of > openDNS has > options to block websites of their inte

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 09:27 +0530, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > > 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

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Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > >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 i

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves 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

[Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

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

Re: [Ilugc] Reg: OS_Kernel_Panic_Error

2010/11/17 ஸ்வாதி கேசவராஜ் : > Kernel panic - not syncing: DMAR hardware is malfunctioning Looks like a Hardware issue. Make sure Laptop is in the working condition. Try cleaning the RAM and check for loose connections in the cables etc.. Bye :) -- Bharathi Subramanian _

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Re: [Ilugc] Remote Installation of Fedora ISO images- Help Required !

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