[TriLUG] Earthlink's namesevers suX0Rz. Need alternates

Chess Griffin chess at chessgriffin.com
Wed Aug 8 10:44:22 EDT 2007


Mark Turner wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm finally fed up with Earthlink's cute DNS redirection scheme, in 
> which their client nameservers redirect queries of nonexistent hosts to 
> a commercial search page, like so:
> 
> http://earthlink-help.com/?AddInType=Bdns&Version=1.2.0el&FailureMode=1&ClientLocation=us&FailedURI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.triloogie.org%2F
> 
> I'm pretty sure this breaks an RFC somewhere, but more than that it's 
> plain annoying. Has anyone got two nameservers I can use instead of 
> Earthlink's?
> 
> For reference, here are the broken Earthlink ones:
> 
> nameserver 207.69.188.185
> nameserver 207.69.188.186
> nameserver 207.69.188.187
> 
> Thanks, y'all!
> Mark

I have been using opendns.org for awhile and it works great.

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Chess Griffin
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