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Nobody told me about this! A DNS conspiracy?

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First post, by HunterZ

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Okay, maybe it's not quite that dramatic, but check out these sites:
http://support.open-rsc.org/
http://scoop.opennic.unrated.net/?op=special;page=faq

It seems that people are operating networks of rogue DNS servers to allow people to register and use domain names without depending on bureaucratic and/or greedy organizations, and that they have been around for years...

I found out about this by searching for "public DNS servers" in Google, which was prompted by the fact that my ISP's (Comcast) DNS servers have been flaking out on me lately.

I've since replaced my Comcast DNS entries in my WinXP TCP/IP settings with around a half-dozen server IPs from the above two sites, sorted in order of ping times. Seems to be working fine so far...

Reply 2 of 4, by DosFreak

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Yeah, I use other DNS servers along with BIND on Windows while surfing the net on my cell phone. Provides a little speed boost on a 19.2 baud connection, yeah 19.2 baud!! Hey it's "free" after 9:00 on weekdays and all day on weekends. 😀

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Reply 3 of 4, by HunterZ

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BTW, here's the reason I was playing with my DNS settings: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,13154925

My connection finally ended up dying completely, and when I called Comcast they had a recording stating that they were experiencing major problems. It came back up for me about a half-hour later and has been working since. I won't go back to their DNS servers though - no reason except for slightly shorter lookup times.

EDIT: Article just went up here: http://www.betanews.com/article/New_Outage_Pl … bers/1113367699

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