DNS Servers

[Kevin Fries]

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" <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> 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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