verizon DNS "helper"

[Tom Buskey]

On Nov 14, 2007 11:40 PM, Chip Marshall <chip at 2bithacker.net> wrote:

> On November 14, 2007, Ben Scott sent me the following:
> >   I suggest just running your own caching resolver (ISC BIND named,
> > tinydns, whatever) and bypassing the ISP's mess entirely.
>
> Probably doable for now, but there's nothing stopping your ISP from
> intercepting all outgoing DNS traffic from end-user IPs and redirecting
> them to the ISP's recursive servers.


You can use a web based DNS lookup to get an IP resolved too.  Here's what I
use:

digip:

#!/bin/sh
# put a proxy here if needed

DEST=$1
IP=`lynx -dump
http://www.dnswatch.info/dns/dnslookup\?la=en\&host=+$DEST\&type=A\&submit=Resolve

| grep 'A record found' |  awk '{print $NF}'`

echo $IP
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