which nameservers do you use?

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 12:01:30 PDT 2004


In a 1.2K blaze of typing glory, R. Quenett wrote:
> I have a feeling I'm making this waaay more complicated than it 
> really is (maybe I just don't know the right words) but anyway....
> 
> My isp (whose name shall be as invisible to you as their service is 
> to me:) has been playing silly bugger with their nameservers again, 
> changing their addresses arbitrarily and without telling me ahead of 
> time.  So fine, it took me about three minutes to find an unrelated 
> nameserver and get connected again.  I know I can run my own 
> nameserver in a variety of flavors but I was kind of hoping to avoid 
> the maintenance for a while longer if I could.
> 
> So my question is does everyone here run their own nameserver or, if 
> not, how do you handle this?

I use my ISP's nameservers and run a caching DNS client. As a fallback,
I also use one of DynDNS's nameservers (as they host the DNS for
KurtWerks).

Kurt
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