name servers

anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.

thanks.
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Dead Paul wrote:
> anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
> public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.
>
> thanks.

apparently the following belong to verizon in the US but publically
accessible by anyone

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2

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"andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Dead Paul wrote:
>> anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
>> public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.
>>
>> thanks.
>
> apparently the following belong to verizon in the US but publically
> accessible by anyone
>
> 4.2.2.1
> 4.2.2.2

I use those two for xbox live, no problems at all.

Dead Paul wrote:
> anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
> public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.

http://www.opendns.com

"Paul Cupis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:45fc4e2c.0@entanet...
> Dead Paul wrote:
>> anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
>> public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.
>
> http://www.opendns.com

I endorse Paul's recommendation for OpenDNS. Their servers are noticeably
faster than PlusNet's.

why not use the biggest and most reliable DNS servers on the internet?
a.root-servers.net
b.root-servers.net
.....
(alphabetically, A through M.root-servers.net)

I cant be bothered to figure out all the IPs but I know that A is
198.41.0.4, that's what I use for my primary dns all the time.

Rgds
Steve.


On Mar 17, 7:17 pm, Dead Paul <dead_p...@no.reply> wrote:
> anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
> public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.
>
> thanks.
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> / _ \/ __/ _ | / _ \ / _ \/ _ |/ / / / /
> / // / _// __ |/ // / / ___/ __ / /_/ / /__
> /____/___/_/ |_/____/ /_/ /_/ |_\____/____/

Steve wrote:
> why not use the biggest and most reliable DNS servers on the internet?
> a.root-servers.net
> b.root-servers.net
> ....
> (alphabetically, A through M.root-servers.net)
>
> I cant be bothered to figure out all the IPs but I know that A is
> 198.41.0.4, that's what I use for my primary dns all the time.

The root nameservers are not recursive and are not intended to be used
in end-users resolvers.

Example:

$ host www.cisco.com 198.41.0.4
www.cisco.com A record currently not present at a.root-servers.net
$ host www.cisco.com 208.67.222.222
www.cisco.com A 198.133.219.25
$ host www.cisco.com 4.2.2.2
www.cisco.com A 198.133.219.25
$

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:51:12 UTC, "Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> why not use the biggest and most reliable DNS servers on the internet?
> a.root-servers.net
> b.root-servers.net
> ....
> (alphabetically, A through M.root-servers.net)
>
> I cant be bothered to figure out all the IPs but I know that A is
> 198.41.0.4, that's what I use for my primary dns all the time.

And exactly what they're NOT designed for. They're heavily enough loaded
just resolving TLDs.
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:53:43 +0000, Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Dead Paul wrote:
>> anyone recommend one or two reliable nameservers for
>> public use? I want to try some alternatives to ntl's.
>
>http://www.opendns.com

or Treewalk:

http://ntcanuck.com/

(free for personal use)