[NTLUG:Discuss] DNS Woes.

[Steve Baker]

brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:47:55AM -0600, Steve Baker wrote:
> > I recently purchased my own domain name (sjbaker.org) and following some
> > great advice from people on this list, use the 'granitecanyon' free DNS
> > service to act as primary and secondard DNS for my site.
> ..
> > However, once in a while, I find that I can't reach my machine - even a
> > simple 'ping' doesn't work:
> 
> FWIW, there's been a few comments on the OpenNIC mailing list
> (www.opennic.unrated.net) about the reliability (or lack thereof) of granitecanyon.
> Most likely you're just experiencing some of that unreliability.

Well, I'd suspected that - but according to their FAQ:

  Since we went live in February 1997 we have had a total of ~30 hours
  when all of the servers were unavailable to provide name service, with
  the exception of January 2001. 

...that doesn't *sound* like the cause of my problems.

> For those who are wondering what OpenNIC is, it's a democratic open-source
> alternative to the ICANN monopoly. Check it out...I host one of the nameservers
> here in Dallas, and we resolve both ICANN and non-ICANN domains.  Feel free to
> point your resolv.conf to 144.162.120.230...

I'll check it out - thanks!

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