Conor Wynne writes:
> > I am using eircom's broadband. But the eircom DNS is quite
> > slow at some times.
> > I'd like to use a different DNS server.
> > I'd be thankful for the IP address of a good (and open) DNS
> > server in Ireland.
> > I hope it belongs to a large provider, so I would not place
> > any significant
> > load on it.
>> Are you sure your system is not just trying to do ipv6 lookups first,
> then when it fails, it tries buzz?
> Else your resolve.conf is not setup properly, or some other mickey mouse
> issue....
Nah, consumer broadband DNS servers are pretty crappy nowadays:
http://blog.opendns.com/2006/08/17/cnet-reports-isps-arent-very-good-at-dns/http://taint.org/2005/04/15/193600a.htmlhttp://www.opendns.com/ is the best option, I think, unless
you want to run your own recursive resolver (which I think is
what most of us do).
--j.
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