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Static DNS - What does it do?

UnderdogUnderdog Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Ok I'd been having a lot of problems with my dsl service recently. Basically, come peak hours, the service would simply stop working and that'd be the end of that until about 1 in the morning. I poked around for some advice and someone suggested I try to switch the DNS IP's to 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, etc. Well I didn't figure it would do anything but couldn't hurt right? Now here I am, 9 pm, getting internet for the first time in about 2 weeks. So I'm wondering what the hell changing the DNS things actually did. Before I switched them, all three were set at 0.0.0.0. Is this a long-term solution or what? Wiki entry does not help either....

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  • FoomyFoomy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    dns servers just resolve a domain name into an ip address for you. if they stop working or are slow than any site you try to go to won't work, or won't work very well.

    4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, and 4.2.2.6 are just open public DNS Servers hosted by AT&T and Level 3. You could also use 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 for Google's public dns servers. or any of the following 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220, 208.67.222.220, 208.67.220.222 for OpenDNS

    the way you had it set before most likely was to auto-detect and use your ISP's DNS, unfortunatly some isp's have shit dns servers and they don't resolve very well, or go down constantly, or are really slow on changes.

    feel free to use any of those I listed as permanent solutions, there all open free public dns servers.

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    some isp's have shit dns servers and they don't resolve very well, or go down constantly, or are really slow on changes.

    Too fucking true.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Personally I use the opendns.org servers, which are nice because you can setup an account with them and apply filters to what domains get resolved, for example the anti-phishing filter will prevent domains known to be phishtanks from resolving.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    opendns fucks with google's site though. I dropped them after they started doing that.

    the level 3 DNS (4.2.2.x) doesn't do stupid shit like fuck with google or send you to ad pages if a domain doesn't exist.

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