[79785] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Cole)
Thu Apr 14 23:28:33 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:28:03 -0400
From: Jeff Cole <jeff@flambe.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504141915400.2712@localhost.localdomain>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> Its called DHCP/PPP, both will auto-magically configure the correct DNS
> Which doesn't work very well when your provider cannot keep a DNS server
> up for 10 minutes at a time. See the beginning of this thread.
Run bind locally on your laptop. There's a Win32 version available if
you're not running some sort of Unix or Linux on there. It's what I do
as my ISP's DNS is wonky at times, as is $ork's as they choose to use
Active Directory for DNS.
Setup different named.conf files for home/work/travel/etc, and a trivial
batch file or shell script to copy the relevant named.conf file into
play and run rndc reload, and you're good to go.
