On 28/03/2010, at 11:23 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Ashley Maher <ashley.ma...@didymodesigns.com.au> writes: > >> I am used to putting in the IP of a dns server into resolv.conf and all >> good. It was very frustrating to find that most of the listed tesltra >> dns servers failed. >> >> host allowed me to check what servers are working quickly. > > FWIW, I got very sick of this years and years ago, so I took to installing the > distribution packaged version of bind on my machine and configuring the system > to use localhost for name resolution. > > That gives a pretty solid resolver that just works(tm) anywhere, and while > there is a tiny increase in first-access latency to sites I can't say it has > any significant practical drawbacks.
Unless Senator Conroy gets his way, then we will all be forced to use the ISP's DNS servers, or fall-back to using some sort of VPN/tunnelling to get out of Oz. Yay! >:-( Cheers, James
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