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Technical News & Discussion => IDNet Help => Topic started by: Odos on Apr 16, 2011, 21:27:08

Title: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Odos on Apr 16, 2011, 21:27:08
Hi simple question and I think Rik might be the best to answer this.

Okay a little background, a couple of weeks ago I switched ISP's to get FTTC, now my new ISP doesn't have it's own DNS servers, it recommends using Google ( yeah right  :eek4: ) anyways my question, even though I'm not now an IDNet BB customer, could I still use their DNS servers ?

Thanks
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Simon on Apr 16, 2011, 21:51:53
Rik's not around at the moment, Tony, but I'm guessing the answer is no.
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Odos on Apr 16, 2011, 21:54:11
Okay thanks Simon  :thumb:

Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Steve on Apr 16, 2011, 21:54:26
I'm unsure whether IDNet dns are public I suspect not have you tried? I would recommend Open DNS if you don't fancy google,also Norton do a public DNS server.
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Odos on Apr 16, 2011, 21:58:37
Quote from: Steve on Apr 16, 2011, 21:54:26
I'm unsure whether IDNet dns are public I suspect not have you tried? I would recommend Open DNS if you don't fancy google,also Norton do a public DNS server.

Nope not tried, didn't want to cause any trouble  :angel: I used Open DNS for a couple of days and found it too slow, at the moment I'm using DNS Advantage, for me it's faster then Open DNS but not as quick as IDNets server were
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Steve on Apr 16, 2011, 22:01:33
Perhaps you could let us know whether IDNet's DNS are private. ;)
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Glenn on Apr 16, 2011, 22:02:52
I find Norton DNS servers to be fast.
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: .Griff. on Apr 16, 2011, 23:00:53
There's a very simple answer to this.

Try Idnet's DNS and see what happens. It will either work and resolve IP's or it wont.

As for OpenDNS being slow I've never heard that before.
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Steve on Apr 16, 2011, 23:36:15
IDnet published some figures a couple of years comparing their DNS resolve times with OpenDns  and found theirs to be slightly quicker, however I've not found OpenDNS to be noticeably slower
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Bill on Apr 16, 2011, 23:41:06
I did some checks a while ago- I found IDNet's primary to be quicker than OpenDNS's, but OpenDNS's secondary was faster than IDNet's.
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Ted on Apr 17, 2011, 00:12:35
Mostly I use...

Primary Norton DNS 198.153.192.1

Secondary OpenDNS 208.67.220.220

Seems to work quite well.  :fingers:
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Odos on Apr 17, 2011, 00:17:56
just done a test and IDNets servers are private, can't resolve anything with them  :'( so it looks like I'll be sticking with DNS Advantage
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Steve on Apr 17, 2011, 08:21:29
DNS advantage name servers are 156.154.70.1 and 156.154.71.1. They do claim requests will be answered by the nearest server , there is one in London.
Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: pctech on Apr 17, 2011, 08:29:38
Quote from: Odos on Apr 17, 2011, 00:17:56
just done a test and IDNets servers are private, can't resolve anything with them  :'( so it looks like I'll be sticking with DNS Advantage


Think most ISPs prevent their DNS resolvers answering requests from outside the network otherwise the load would problably bring them down.

Title: Re: Can I use,,,,
Post by: Ted on Apr 17, 2011, 19:06:26
Thought I'd have a play with the DNS advantage servers, they appear to be pretty good. On poking around the net, as you do, I came upon this http://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/ with server addresses of 156.154.70.22
156.154.71.22

Remarkably similar to http://www.dnsadvantage.com/dnsadv using 156.154.70.1 and 156.154.71.1 servers  :eyebrow:
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