DNS Servers

[Keith Smith]

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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