Public DNS servers

darth sidious

darth sidious

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A question for the computer experts/nerds/geeks among us!

Has anybody on here had any experience and/or recommendations of using any of the various (Google, Norton/Symantec, OpenDNS, ScrubIt, Verizon, DNS Advantage, etc.) public DNS servers?
 
What are you wanting to do - DNS management for hosting something? Dynamic dns for a net connection with a dynamic ip, or just needing DNS servers out on the net to use for outbound lookups?
 
I use easy space for web hosting.

I use DynDNS for my home dynamic dns as my sky router supports it.

If you're going to host ASP.NET pages you'll either need a windows hosted site or a linux box that you can install Mono on, but that is getting beyond my limited server knollage. :LOL:
 
I use OpenDNS extensively at home and at work, generally work very well and you can impose some basic filtering/blocking as well.
 
darth sidious said:
A question for the computer experts/nerds/geeks among us!

Has anybody on here had any experience and/or recommendations of using any of the various (Google, Norton/Symantec, OpenDNS, ScrubIt, Verizon, DNS Advantage, etc.) public DNS servers?
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I have never used custom DNS services but if you want parental controls try Windows Live Family Safety which is free software (not DNS based).

Cheers

Tony Bunting
 
Cheers guys! I was just wondering if they were any good or not, and/or was there any (dis)advantage to them.

Webmaster has helped me make a decision though; I looked up OpenDNS and like the fact I can block social networking sites (and other dubious sites, of course!):-

1) I have a young cousin who thinks my net connection is his private line to Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and so on.

2) I personally despise social networking sites. I know many think I'm a dinosaur, but I just don't like them at all.

My young cousin brings his own laptop, so it would have to be DNS based (or by somehow 'sniffing' the web addresses).

I can't wait to see his face when he sees Facebook blocked!!! Muhuhuhahaha!!! :twisted: Sorry... :p
 
It's always wothing looking at your routers settings if you don't mind fiddling. As most allow you to dictate when it gives access to the internet as well as blocking ports. That way you can, if you're worried about access attempts, reduce the time it's connected to the net. Set it to be off during the night and week days when you are at work.

Routers by default are setup with week protection to reduce service calls to the supplier. I think the sky router I got when I switched service proviodor was the first shipped with a custom password. So many routers ship with user name and password of "Admin Admin" or just Admin and blank password.

One of my neighbours was plugged in and fully accessable, so I renamed it to "insecure see rich no36". I set it up for him the next day. :wink:

My parents were able to see thier neighbours PC's!!!! Had some intresting photos. :LOL:

You can if you want to, test your security with Shields up web site.
 
Cheers, already done that! Came up with totally stealth!

Oh, believe me my router has a very 'strange' password. Nobody, but nobody else gets to the admin panel on that!
 
Richard

Thanks. I did not know about shields up. Just run it. It is wonderful.

Also seems I am OK from the following results!

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.

Great tool. Thanks

Tony Bunting
 
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