[ale] Recommended public DNS server

[fd0man at gmail.com (fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man)]

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 23:20 -0400, aaron wrote:

> My Comcast service went out briefly Friday night.  Upon investigating, I was 
> able to confirm that I still had connectivity with ping to a known IP number, 
> but the problem was that my assigned DNS servers were down.
> 
> The incident made me realized that it would be handy to have some fallback IP 
> numbers to plug in, so I'm looking for recommendations on public DNS service 
> (or commercial DNS servers who don't mind occasional guests).
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 


Such outages on ComCast's network, while less frequent (for me) than
they used to be, still happen.  I run a local DNS server here in my
apartment that caches DNS to avoid any outages; it is not perfect, but
it works for me.  :)

    ? Mike

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