My boss has started talking about using Amazon's hosted DNS solution. On paper it sounds great, anybody use it? And how does it stack up against those mentioned here. I have always used OpenDNS, with great luck, but Amazon's redundancy built in solution sounds solid. Kevin On Oct 5, 2015 1:35 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > Thank you Stephen and Michael!! > > Sense I am running a server connected to Cox, is there any advantage of > using Cox's DNS servers? > > Thanks!! > > Keith > > > On 2015-10-04 21:40, Michael Butash wrote: > >> So I still use the same dns server in phoenix and dallas they had when >> they took over from @home/work, 68.2.16.30 and 68.1.208.30. These >> were old farm vips of e220 solaris boxen that served from the dark >> days, and remain (hopefully as not those same slowaris boxen) somewhat >> unhampered as so much internal stuff uses them too. Sort of like >> their old green-screen terminal crm they still use internally... >> >> I specifically don't use their dhcp-fed servers, as those are >> intercepted for their ridiculous cox search page. I somewhat take >> offense to it actually, I consider it a man in the middle attack. >> Those old vip's don't do that. >> >> Otherwise, you feed google's analytics engines with dns queries. Pick >> your evil marketing engine doing creative business intelligence >> analystics against your search queries. Sadly I'm always searching >> google, so I might as well feed them my dns too, but I don't. >> >> -mb >> >> >> On 10/04/2015 08:09 PM, Keith Smith wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm configuring a web server on my Cox business connection. I used >>> Google's DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 on the box. >>> >>> I'm now wondering if I should use Cox's DNS servers. >>> >>> Your thoughts are much appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Keith >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Keith Smith > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >