Ed Abbott wrote: > I've contacted Time-Warner via online chat. Technical support responded > to my request to turn off DNS forwarding by saying "We don't offer DNS > forwarding." In other words, they had no idea what I was talking about.
>From the blog link you posted, it sounds like there's an account portal you can log into somewhere to do this yourself. You may have to climb the tech support management chain a few layers to find out where it is if the links in that post don't work for you or if you need to find the right information to use to log in. Good luck. > My general sense is that Time-Warner cable is not going to turn off DNS > forwarding, otherwise known as DNS hijacking. I used both terms in my > communication with them. > > Any foreseeable problem with using Google Public DNS instead? Well, you'll see a different class of problem. Google's public cache servers have been blocked by most of the DNSBLs for sending too many queries for the free access. You won't get *wrong* responses, but you won't get much benefit from them either. > Thanks for all your responses so far. I live in a rural area in Maine, > USA. I'm in a town of about 20,000 people. Looks like I'm going to > have to keep my ISP. :/ All too common in a lot of places. The major cable companies in the US in particular seem to have managed to avoid having to let resellers onto their networks. -kgd
