Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 12:06:39 EST 2006


  Brace yourself.  I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know
Comcast has intercepted all DNS queries, regardless or destination, and
redirected them to their own.

  Thomas

On 11/14/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that sites I can get to
> both easily and quickly from work are completely unreachable from
> home.  From Comcast's perspective, these sites seem to not even exist.
>
> Is this intentional censoring on Comcast's part, or just incompetance
> at maintaining a DNS server infrastructure?
>
> And on that note, can anyone recommend a decent set of DNS servers to
> point at instead of using Comcast's?
>
> How about the GNHLUG server?  Can we make that a DNS server as a
> "membership" benefit?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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