Re: Free DNS?

Bob Smith wrote:
> I think the DNS has gone down on tiscali. I got the IP of dnsstuff.com, and
> when I manually enter IP addresses in my hosts file, things start working.
>
> Is there an alternative DNS address I can bung into my router so I don't
> have to do this for every web page I visit? Preferably one that you can use
> no matter what your ISP is. (I am assuming they are like POP3 servers, in
> that you can only access them through your ISP).
>
> Bob
>
>

Run your own Treewalk DNS server, it's free and it works:
http://ntcanuck.com/

I assume you're running Windows of some sort ;-)

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Mark²³


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> Bob Smith wrote:
>> I think the DNS has gone down on tiscali. I got the IP of dnsstuff.com,
>> and when I manually enter IP addresses in my hosts file, things start
>> working.
>>
>> Is there an alternative DNS address I can bung into my router so I don't
>> have to do this for every web page I visit? Preferably one that you can
>> use no matter what your ISP is. (I am assuming they are like POP3
>> servers, in that you can only access them through your ISP).
>>
>> Bob
>
> Run your own Treewalk DNS server, it's free and it works:
> http://ntcanuck.com/
>
> I assume you're running Windows of some sort ;-)
>

Thanks for the reply - I found the problem. My router was no longer passing
the DNS address to XP - I don't know why it suddenly decided not to. Once I
manually put the DNS address in, it started working.

The software looks interesting though. How much HDD / memory does it use
up? And how does it find the IP if my ISPs DNS is not there to teach it?

Bob

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Bob Smith wrote:

>
>
> Thanks for the reply - I found the problem. My router was no longer passing
> the DNS address to XP - I don't know why it suddenly decided not to. Once I
> manually put the DNS address in, it started working.
>
> The software looks interesting though. How much HDD / memory does it use
> up? And how does it find the IP if my ISPs DNS is not there to teach it?
>

normally through a Hints file that contains the root server

Peter