[79720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter John Hill)
Thu Apr 14 14:02:43 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504141305001.2079@clifden.donelan.com>
From: Peter John Hill <peterjhill@cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:00:47 -0700
To: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I have completely given up on relying on Comcast for dns service... For
now I will continue to use them for "transit"
If they are unwilling to implement anycast dns then I cannot trust
them... On my mac...
sudo vi /etc/hostconfig
DNSSERVER=-YES-
:wq
No wonder entrenched broadband ISPs are so against metro wifi...
Peter
On Apr 14, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Brandon Ross wrote:
>>> ;-) Seriously, though, some benefits can be imagined, like being
>>> able to
>>> use the same DNS server on my laptop no matter where in the world I
>>> plug
>>> in.
>>
>> people do that today.... unforunately they do it with 198.6.1.1 :(
>
> Its called DHCP/PPP, both will auto-magically configure the correct DNS
> for your current network connection. If your laptop changes IP
> addresses,
> it should get new network configuration details for the current
> network.
>
>
>
