Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:08:17 -0500 Chris Bennett <chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:50:53PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > I don't know if this will be usable for your case, here at home the aDSL > > modem tries to be the resolver. The trouble is with the ISP: their DNS > > servers are quite frequently unreliable and unstable. They even affect > > the PPP connection sate, as the modem firmware uses that to trigger self > > induced reboots, while link is present and working. You can imagine how > > frustrating this can be for users not realising what's going on in fact. > > Yes, I agree completely. It is very frustrating. And of course, I want > to use sites that must have DNS working right now. > I could use my phone as a hotspot, but I need to use that money for > something else more important. One time, both systems for DNS went down!
I've had this many many times, the DSL service is more than 12 years active and this trick went into production on the first day it came in service ;-) > > To solve this, multiple times with various different locations, I ended > > up setting up local resolving DNS server, recently this became Unbound, > > on the gateway OpenBSD system, and it does resolution directly querying > > root DNS servers. I think this solved it for me ultimately many times. > > For this ISP, this is the solution here, I believe this can help others. > > Well, in any case, I should learn how to use Unbound. Hopefully that can > help. And if not right here, maybe other spots with that problem. I've > had this problem with my laptop in many places with free wifi. It will. If the ISP you're going through does capture all outgoing DNS traffic and force redirects it through their name serverice, another go at it is to optionally tunnel out (ssh, or anything else) and use DNS service via the tunnelled connection. Either set Unbound, or another recursive resolver there and use it for your resolver, or simply pass your DNS traffic for your own resolving name server through the tunnel. The Unbound DNS resolver is in base, let me know if you need any tech details with this in direct message and I'll add more specific details. > Thanks, > Chris
