guys, i am using this mtnl's triband service, and from last few days its dns server is not functioning properly. i was wondering if anyone knows an ip of good dns server on net to whom i can point my machine to look up for.
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 20:23, Harshal wrote:
guys, i am using this mtnl's triband service, and from last few days its dns server is not functioning properly. i was wondering if anyone knows an ip of good dns server on net to whom i can point my machine to look up for.
Use the caching only name server on your computer. No need for external DNS servers. Use Bind / Named service.
HTH With regards,
On 4/29/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 28 April 2006 15:07, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Use the caching only name server on your computer. No need for external DNS servers. Use Bind / Named service.
Harshal, do setup Bind / Named service. At this point you have two options, use an external DNS server like http://open-rsc.org or setup Bind / Named to query directly the root servers. The latter may work out to be a bit slower.
How about using both? List the default MTNL nameserver in resolv.conf followed by the local one. You can set the timeout and no. of attempts in resolv.conf with:
-x- options timeout:<m> attempts:<n> -x-
I have no idea what would be optimal values for these parameters. The defaults according to resolv.h (RES_TIMEOUT=5 (seconds) and RES_DFLRETRY=2) are too conservative by broadband connectivity standards. Perhaps they were designed for dial-up users.
- farazs
On 4/29/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 28 April 2006 15:07, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Use the caching only name server on your computer. No need for external DNS servers. Use Bind / Named service.
That wont solve his problem entirely.
Harshal, do setup Bind / Named service. At this point you have two options, use an external DNS server like http://open-rsc.org or setup Bind / Named to query directly the root servers. The latter may work out to be a bit slower.
thank you very much, that open-rsc.org solved the problem, i could have gone for caching only name server but i wanted a solution to work on both windows and linux.
thanks a lot.
On Friday 28 April 2006 15:07, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Use the caching only name server on your computer. No need for external DNS servers. Use Bind / Named service.
That wont solve his problem entirely.
Harshal, do setup Bind / Named service. At this point you have two options, use an external DNS server like http://open-rsc.org or setup Bind / Named to query directly the root servers. The latter may work out to be a bit slower.
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