Avoiding Rogers DNS breakage

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 9 16:19:13 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:22:04PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Remember those threads a few months ago about Rogers breaking DNS behaviour
> by giving an ad-filled search page for an un-resolving domain?

Easily fixed too.

whatever dns it gives you by dhcp resolves to dns.*.rogers.com

Lookup altdns.*.rogers.com and use that instead.  Perfectly sane normal
DNS server.

> Now Google has produced a tool that helps find the fastest public DNS server
> for any installation.
> It'll be interesting to see how well this works...
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

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