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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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