[TriLUG] DNS providers: why bother? was Re: Email Problems

[David Both]

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On 02/12/2013 04:17 PM, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Randy Barlow wrote:
>
>> This was the primary reason I switched away from using TW's DNS, and one
>> of the main reasons I would have wanted to use OpenDNS. Too bad. There's
>> always 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4… for now!
>
> Am I the only one here that runs their own recursive resolver? All I had to do 
> was apt-get install bind9 and edit /etc/bind/named.conf.options to only listen 
> on local addresses. Since it runs on my firewall, I only need one instance for 
> my entire network, and I have dhcpd automatically tell clients to use it.
>
> Why use some third party service that does who-knows-what sort of shenanigans?
>
> Alexey
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