Most people use their ISP's DNS as this provides shorter ping times and frequent requests are cached for quicker responses.
However this doesn't mean you can't use another DNS server and I think you can use any you can get an IP for whatever the ISP. DNS servers are set to relay requests to and from anywhere so they should always be available to the public as long as they're not behind a router for use on a private network (some people set up their own DNS servers on their network to speed up serving and allow for greater control). You can even in your network settings allocate one of your ISP's DNS servers as well as a second DNS server that can be somewhere else. This might not fix the problem but at least would provide a fallback in case the problem is in any way related to your ISP. All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster Australian Mac Users Group On 9/11/04 7:08 PM, "Craig Ringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not really ... generally you'll want to pick up your ISPs settings > rather than specify them explicitly. That way, if your ISP changes DNS > servers your computer just picks up the change rather than stops > working. > > For troubleshooting a specific problem, however, it may be worth > explicitly configuring them.
