Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Tue Nov 14 11:27:09 EST 2006


"Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:

> Run your own local DNS server with caching.  You do have a server at
> home right?  Or run a caching server on localhost.  Linux and MacOSX
> can do it.

Good point, don't know why I never thought of that.  For that matter,
I can also use the ones here at work :) Duh.  My caffeine system must
have too much blood in it this morning.

> Point it at the root servers if you can't find reliable secondaries.
> Recommendations?

Can't we just go back to using /etc/hosts ?

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Paul
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