Additional DNS servers?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Apr 2 14:21:36 UTC 2002


In article <a8b0rk$lv at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Robin Lynn Frank  <rlfrank at paradigm-omega.com> wrote:
>
>Our office is in a remote location served only by a dialup connection by an 
>ISP whose DNS servers are less than wonderful.  To insure that we do not have 
>a repitition of a recent incident where certain sites could not be reached 
>because of the failure of the ISP's servers, I would like utilize Bind to use 
>remote servers to keep us out of trouble.  My questions are:
>
>1) Are there servers out there we can access this way?
>2) If so, what ones are reliable?
>3) How many should we use?

I've never heard of a service that provides public caching DNS service like
this.  Why don't you just run your own DNS server on a machine in the
office?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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