DNS server's 404 screen

[Derek Broughton]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> John Pierce wrote:
>> 
>>> Why even bother with your isp's DNS servers.  It is linux, fire up
>>> bind9 and configure it to be your dns server.
>> 
>> Sure, that would work just fine.  My _router_ runs linux.  It runs a DNS
>> server.  However it has no way around the satellite modem's built in DNS,
>> so it still gets bad responses (if I try to lookup DNS on any other
>> external
>> DNS server, it gets rerouted to the satmodem).  I imagine I could figure
>> out a way to force the router to try again once the satmodem has poisoned
>> its cache, but it was too much trouble last time I looked.
>> 
>> Perhaps it should be using TCPv6 lookups to opendns - I don't know if the
>> satmodem can catch those.
> it's even worse here. my own DNS queries are quite useless. i have bind9
> installed as always, but my ISP uses a cache server. sometimes, my
> browser does the DNS query, and connects to the website, just to receive
> a DNS error from my ISP's squid. so basically, i query, then the ISP
> does a query. and HIS query is what matters to see the page properly.
> and no i can't switch, only ISP in this god forsaken land.

Well, technically, you don't need to use your ISP's DNS, and there are free 
DNS servers around.  In my case, the hardware that connects me to the 
internet finds any TCP request to port 53, and redirects it to the internal 
DNS.  But I'd be surprised if any land-based ISP was doing that.
-- 
derek