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[Daniel A. Ramaley]

My internal DNS server doesn't forward requests to my ISP. Why would i 
do that when i can just use the root servers directly?

I don't even know the IPs of my ISP's name servers. I'm guessing they 
have fairly stable DNS though, since everything else about the service 
has been quite reliable.

On 2009-05-08 at 10:50:25, Nick Fox wrote:
>OpenDNS does not replce your internal DNS server, you set your
> Internal server to forward external request to them rather than your
> ISP. It allows content filtering and (at least in my experience) more
> stable DNS than the ISP.
>
>-Nick
>
>Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> On 2009-05-07 at 21:53:11, Nick Fox wrote:
>>> Personally its not a bad idea to switch to OpenDNS anyhow. I did
>>> sometime ago.
>>
>> I've heard of OpenDNS many times before. What real benefit is there
>> to using OpenDNS over just running my own DNS server (as i do now)?

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