[ale] OT: Still can't access mozilla.org

[danverde]

On Friday 20 October 2006 10:30 am, Alan Dobkin wrote:
> On 10/19/2006 11:58 AM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Interestingly I tried that using my original dns, which I have gone back
> > to: 64.94.1.1 or 64.94.1.33 which gets back the IPs you listed also dns
> > @ IP 4.2.2.1 gives back the same, but both of Emory's at 170.140.1.1 &
> > 170.140.2.1 indicated that it couldn't find www.mozilla.org or .com
> > and Speakeasy's dns were unavailable, didn't try earthlink or
> > bellslouth.
>
> If you are outside of their network and not using VPN, I believe that
> Emory's DNS servers do not allow recursive lookups to non-authoritative
> domains.  However, probably due to a misconfiguration on their servers,
> they do respond with cached lookups, which may give the perception that
> their DNS servers are open to the public, even though they are not.
> Therefore, if you try to go to a site such as www.mozilla.org, and that
> site is not already in their cache at the time of your request, then it
> may appear as unavailable.
>
> The moral of the story is: use your own ISP's DNS servers.  If they are
> unreliable, switch to another ISP, or run your own DNS server.
>
> Alan
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There is also opendns.org. I have been using them with out any problems so 
far.


http://www.opendns.com/