On Saturday 01 August 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: > > 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) > 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to > advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... > 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every invalid address resolve to an > address anyway, which when viewed in a web browser goes to an "error" > page (full of advertisements and "sponsored links"). You never know if > a hostname is really invalid or not, which makes troubleshooting > non-HTTP connections interesting.
http://www.opendns.com is your friend. :) I switched a few months back and not regretted it. HTH -Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ----------------------------------------------------------------------
