I agree it has many advantages but using public dns has never caused me any pain. One of these days i am going to place a few dns servers on my physical network but that will require climate controlled building space which I'm not interested in fighting.
Shawn C. Peppers Video Direct Satellite & Entertainment 866-680-8433 Toll Free 480-287-9960 Fax http://www.video-direct.tv > On Jul 8, 2016, at 7:43 AM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > I (and others) keep saying it because it's a fact. > > CDNs use latency to your DNS resolvers (among other things) to optimize the > delivery of content. If your DNS resolver isn't on your network, you simply > aren't best able to take advantage of that infrastructure. You're more likely > to be going to a worse node increasing latency, decreasing throughput, > increasing chances of unreliability, etc. > > Setting up local resolvers is a relatively simple and painless process. Just > do it. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > > The Brothers WISP > > From: "Shawn C. Peppers" <videodirectwispal...@gmail.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 7:25:12 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DNS Name Resolver for WISP > > You always say that but I have been using open dns for over 6 years now and > can't recall ever having any issues, not even once. > > Shawn C. Peppers > Video Direct Satellite & Entertainment > 866-680-8433 Toll Free > 480-287-9960 Fax > http://www.video-direct.tv > > On Jul 8, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Don't use any DNS resolvers not on your own network. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > > The Brothers WISP > > > From: "Daniel Mullen" <daniel.mul...@metrocom.ca> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 2:43:21 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] DNS Name Resolver for WISP > > I know cira.ca has a service for ISPs. If you need a specific contact there > let me know, off-list. > > Daniel > > At 04:59 PM 23-06-2016, you wrote: > > Self hosted. I suggest unbound or bind. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > On Jun 23, 2016 3:56 PM, "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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 for example. > > If not OpenDNS, then is there some other hosted DNS service for ISP's? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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