[TriLUG] Griping about Time-Warner outage

[Scott Miller]

I believe Google's DNS and OpenDNS pass through part of your IP
address to not cause any problems in this regard.

Ex: http://www.afasterinternet.com/howitworks.htm


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Boggs, Ted
<tboggs at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
> Doesn't using Google or OpenDNS break DNS-based  geo-targeting?  I know
> Akamai, Netflix, etc. used to use your DNS server's address to determine
> where you are located.  If you are using a DNS server far away
> geographically, won't that add latency for connections to edge servers?
>
> --
> Ted Boggs
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  If you are using DHCP or static IPs on a system, and I assume it is Linux
>>> of
>>> some kind, you can add the DNS entries to
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-**scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or appropriate NIC name).
>>>
>>> DNS1=8.8.8.8
>>> DNS2=8.8.4.4
>>>
>>
>>
>> On a Debian/Ubuntu system, you can add this to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:
>>
>> prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;
>>
>> or
>>
>> supersede domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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