[79774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Apr 14 19:12:35 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:11:15 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Peter John Hill <peterjhill@cmu.edu>
Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1c5532495b800c66cc2f050f5f663dc6@cmu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Peter John Hill wrote:
> I just don't want my wife to complain to me that she could not check her
> email because "the Internet was broken"
Serious answer to a non-serious comment:
The group that reads this mailing list can be assumed to be more technically
savvy than most people, right?
OK.
So, I run my own DNS server and have a guy providing three secondaries. I use
mine and one of his (the one that is geographically distant from mine, as well
as on a different segment of Internet), instead of my cable company's, because
their DNS servers don't seem to see zone updates as quickly as I'd like them to
see them.
I run my own mail server, from which my family's mailboxes are served. This is
mainly due to my irrational preference to have 100% control over my email. ;)
No reason why others couldn't do something similar, unless Comcast is blocking
53/udp (mainly) and 53/tcp. (NB: My cable company is not Comcast, but it is one
of the other large providers. NB also that while I get my IP address via DHCP,
I choose not to use the DNS servers offered to me when I renew my DHCP lease.)
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