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Good DNS servers?

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Anyone know of any? my ISP's are fucking awful, and I'm not keen on the openDNS servers.
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I use OpenDNS. Always seemed good enough to me.
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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

Stoat wrote:I use OpenDNS. Always seemed good enough to me.
it's fine, but if you're a lazy cupcake like me and just type say "b3ta" in the address bar, being taken to a search page, rather than the site is annoying
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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:it's fine, but if you're a lazy berk like me and just type say "b3ta" in the address bar, being taken to a search page, rather than the site is annoying
Maybe get used to pressing CTRL+ALT and ENTER to add the .com - CTRL+SHFT for .org, SHFT+ALT for .net
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or run your own DNS server :)
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I've tried some different servers, on the off chance it will help my virgin connection, over the past few days it's been very lossy and rubberbandy*, so it may do nothing, it may help my massively fluctuating ping, we'll see.










*Both are highly technical terms I know :lol:
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HereComesPete wrote:I've tried some different servers, on the off chance it will help my virgin connection, over the past few days it's been very lossy and rubberbandy*, so it may do nothing, it may help my massively fluctuating ping, we'll see.
so wrong on so many levels :lol:
gl pete!
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Post by HereComesPete »

gl? buh?

I'm willing to try anything to get it working, can't really change though, very few options area allowed with this rented house, I'm not 100% on what a dns server actually does, but if I change them is there going to be any impact on my bb stability? kthnx.
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Post by ProfHawking »

a dns server turns URLs into IP addresses

So, when you try to visit google.co.uk your computer looks at it's dns server (which is probably your router, which looks at it's dns server) and it gets back an IP address of 66.246.195.42, which your computer needs to actually get at the web server

If you have slow DNS servers, browsing the web is slow when you first try to go to a website. Actually downloading stuff will not be affected.

Changing them is unlikely to fuck anything up, and if it does, you can always switch them back to what they were.
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Post by cheeseandham »

yeah sorry pete, i thought what you said was funny, but couldn't be arsked to go into a detailed explanation of DNS, DNS caching and TTL and what "rubberbandy" was :)
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