info on a DNS

[Lyle Tuttle]

How about this:  A friend has Cox internet service, but sends so many 
emails they want her to pay for a business connection - way too much 
$.  Could she connect to internet, then and send / receive email via 
these servers?

At 10:26 PM 5/20/2009, you wrote:
>No. Cox has to provision your connection for Internet service and 
>add your modem to the allowed list. Free DNS servers does not equal 
>free Internet.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On May 20, 2009, at 10:07 PM, mike havens 
><<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Could I go out and purchase a modem, hook it up to a coax connected 
>>to the cable system (which is being paid for), and then have free internet
>>
>>On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:00 AM, mike havens 
>><<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>They are public? How do you mean; they are free to use? If that is 
>>so how do you access them?
>>
>>
>>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Kurt Granroth 
>><<mailto:kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com>kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> wrote:
>>On 5/19/09 3:54 AM, mike havens wrote:
>> > I want to find out all that I can about a certain Domain Name Server.
>> > Unfortunately, I do not have linux on my computer so I will have to ask
>> > someone to do this for me. The DNS is 4.2.2.2 or 4.2.2.1
>>
>>Those are probably the best known public DNS servers on the 'net.  My
>>memory is a little fuzzy but from what I remember reading years back,
>>they were some of the original DARPA DNS servers.  They then got passed
>>between several network companies, always remaining public.  At some
>>point, they were owned by Verizon and Level 3... one or both might still
>>own them.
>>
>>They've been popular for several reasons:
>>1. Public
>>2. Very fast
>>3. Been around possibly since before the Internet was the Internet
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