[ale] Recommended public DNS server

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sun Sep 10 21:21:28 EDT 2006


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).

Earthlink:
207.69.188.185-187
Emory:
170.140.1.1; 170.140.2.1
Speakeasy:
216.26.175.2
216.27.41.2

I have never seen Earthlink DNS servers go down. Emory has been pretty
solid for the past 6-7 years. Speakeasy had one outage that was router
related and resolved in about 20 minutes.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> peace
> aaron
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