[Cialug] Blocking

[Nathan C. Smith]

Because the root servers are a finite resource? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel A. Ramaley
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:57 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Blocking
> 
> 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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