+1 to both Adam and Mike’s responses. Don’t hand out someone else’s DNS. Spin up your own DNS, use root hints, and life is happy.
Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > On Jul 5, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Adam Kennedy <adamkenn...@watchcomm.net> wrote: > > Seconded. We also use unbound with a few tweaks. Anycast is a perfect > solution for Unbound DNS resolvers. We have several scattered across the > network so resolution/DNS cache is closer to the customer than just at our > NOC. It works very, very well. > > > Adam Kennedy > Network & Systems Engineer > Watch Communications > (866) 586-1518 > adamkenn...@watchcomm.net <mailto:adamkenn...@watchcomm.net> > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net > <mailto:wispawirel...@ics-il.net>> wrote: > *NEVER* hand out an off-net resolver. > > *ONLY* hand out your own, on-net resolvers. > > I use Unbound on Debian. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > > From: "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com <mailto:colton.co...@gmail.com>> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>> > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:56:42 PM > Subject: [WISPA] DNS Name Resolver for WISP > > What dns name solvers do you use to hand out to your customers via DHCP and > why? Today we just hand out Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as a name resolvers. > I recently learned about OpenDNS's free service for homes where a home user > can monitor and potentially block certain websites, but that would require > the home to signup at open dns, and then enter open DNS in their router. > However if we handed out OpenDNS's IPs instead of googles, and provided a > gateway, then that would remove that step of the client having to enter > opendns IPs into their router right? > > Does OpenDNS have a service for ISP's? That gives us insight as to where > traffic on our network is heading based dns lookups? I know about Netflow > etc, but doing this though DNS seems like a cool option as well. We wouldn't > want to block anything as an ISP, but it would be useful to know the top > visited site by our customers is facebook.com <http://facebook.com/> for > example. > > If not OpenDNS, then is there some other hosted DNS service for ISP's? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > <http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless> > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > <http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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