[ale] Recommended public DNS server

[James P. Kinney III]

Hmm. I started finding info on this issue just after I posted the DNS
entries. Just another reason I ceased ISP services with Earthlink.

I withdraw my recommendation for using 207.69.188.185-187 DNS servers.

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:57 -0400, Chris Farris wrote:
> Don't use Earthlink DNS.
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/03/1359221
> http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/08/handling_dead_domains_1.php
> 
> As an employee I must include this disclaimer:
> 
> The preceding comments are of an intelligent nature and therefore 
> reflect in no way the position or opinion of my employer.
> 
> Chris
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 23:20 -0400, aaron wrote:
> >> My Comcast service went out briefly Friday night.  Upon investigating, I was 
> >> able to confirm that I still had connectivity with ping to a known IP number, 
> >> but the problem was that my assigned DNS servers were down.
> >>
> >> The incident made me realized that it would be handy to have some fallback IP 
> >> numbers to plug in, so I'm looking for recommendations on public DNS service 
> >> (or commercial DNS servers who don't mind occasional guests).
> > 
> > Earthlink:
> > 207.69.188.185-187
> > Emory:
> > 170.140.1.1; 170.140.2.1
> > Speakeasy:
> > 216.26.175.2
> > 216.27.41.2
> > 
> > I have never seen Earthlink DNS servers go down. Emory has been pretty
> > solid for the past 6-7 years. Speakeasy had one outage that was router
> > related and resolved in about 20 minutes.
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> peace
> >> aaron
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