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Author: Stephen Partington
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Subject: Re: DNS Servers
​I am running my own internal DNs server and the list i had earlier is what
i am using to seed my DNS.​

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Keith Smith <>
wrote:

>
> I'm running bind, does that change my question? I was talking about the
> two DNS servers that are part of the network Config.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 14.04lts
>
> /etc/network/interfaces contains a line :
>
> dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
>
> These are the name servers I asking about. Sorry for any confusion.
>
>
> Kevin Fries, on another project I've been using ZoneEdit for maybe 3 years
> with only a problems. Have not had an issue in maybe 2 years. Interface is
> easy to understand and pricing seems reasonable.
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-05 12:41, Kevin Fries wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
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