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Re: Name resolution

From: John Aldrich <jmaldrich_at_nospam>
Date: Tue Jul 05 2011 - 10:34:52 GMT
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>

On Tue July 5 2011, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> > might I suggest trying Google Public DNS servers? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4
> > are the IP addresses. My ISP apparently runs some sort of filtering
> > and occasionally I have problems with their DNS, so I switched to
> > Google and that pretty much resolves the issue for me. :D
>
> I run my own DNS server, for a similar reason: Every ISP I've tried has
> a crappy DNS server. Before I did that, I had to put some domain's IP
> into my hosts file, because their DNS server usually gave no answer.
>
yeah... I just can't be bothered to set up BIND. That's what things like
Google Public DNS is for. :D
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