VaKo Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Since NTL, my isp has a terribile DNS service, i decided to google some more public DNS servers to use as static backup DNS services in my router. So i'm now using 3 tier 2 servers from OpenNIC, and the internet is now suddenly a great deal faster, and more sites seem to be there now. But i just want to know if I'm killing the internet, ie abusing a service i'm not ment to use. Or is this just a cool tweak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 If their public you shouldn't have a problem. The only time that I can think of that you would have a problem if you wrote some software that used those servers and then sold that software to a large number of people. Now that you've started looking into DNS, you can start thinking about running your own DNS server, I found I got the best speed increase from doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianuser Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 If their public you shouldn't have a problem.The only time that I can think of that you would have a problem if you wrote some software that used those servers and then sold that software to a large number of people. Now that you've started looking into DNS, you can start thinking about running your own DNS server, I found I got the best speed increase from doing that. isn't your dns server will relay upon the dns server of your provider :?: :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l0gic Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 OpenDNS is the way to go! I've been using them for a few weeks, and have been very impressed. They're configured to catch typos too (.cmo -> .com), which is great. http://www.opendns.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debianuser Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 They're configured to catch typos too (.cmo -> .com), which is great.http://www.opendns.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 isn't your dns server will relay upon the dns server of your provider QuestionConfused No, like VaKo is now using a different DNS server, I don't have to get my tables from my ISPs DNS servers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I'd say just do your best to be a polite netizen and install a local caching DNS server so you reduce the load on their boxen as much as possible. It should speed up your own lookups a little more to boot, so it's a win-win situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 seem legit to me.... i'll give it a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 My favorite DNS server: 2.2.2.1 - 2.2.2.4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 So how would I go about setting up a DNS server? I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Use BIND Vako, its on FreeBSD and most people use that when setting themself a DNS server up. Theres plenty of documentation and tutorials out there as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 My favorite DNS server: 2.2.2.1 - 2.2.2.4 And does anybody know why owns these DNS servers? I was using them but the lack of info made me use something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Good cos my isps dns servers have been down all day and their phone lines busy but its not interrulted my internet access at all. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Use BIND Vako, its on FreeBSD and most people use that when setting themself a DNS server up. Theres plenty of documentation and tutorials out there as well. yea what he said.... there's a really good o'reilly book called dns/BIND read that become 'l33torz' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Use BIND Vako, its on FreeBSD and most people use that when setting themself a DNS server up. Theres plenty of documentation and tutorials out there as well. yea what he said.... there's a really good o'reilly book called dns/BIND read that become 'l33torz' That book is awesome. I only read half of it though, considering that I had no ambitions of running my own DNS server. I think it's just a good read for anyone as the first few chapters really help you understand the Internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 Cheers for the book recommendation. I had a feeling this was rapidly moving beyond the realm of searching digg for tutorials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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