Comments | arkham1010: Verizon FIOS DNS

arkham1010

Verizon FIOS DNS

Aug 25, 2008 23:08

Anyone else around who uses FIOS having problems with DNS lately? I get intermitant resolution of hostnames.

Comments 2

sweh August 26 2008, 03:28:32 UTC

I've found the provided router to be very very flakey for... almost everything, including DNS.

When my own DNS server was down (rebuilding the RAID5) I switched my PC to use the router DNS and got lots of failures.

So run your own DNS name server!

starlancer August 26 2008, 04:46:33 UTC

I have a friend who runs his own caching DNS at his house, and I've thought about it. Comcast used to suck so bad I just statically configure them, putting the two I normally get from DHCP first then adding several publicly accessible DNS servers. They're much better than they used to be but occasionally I still see the delay while it cycles down the stack of DNS servers timing out the Comcast ones until something works.

I don't have a list right now but a few minutes goodling for "public DNS servers" or "public name servers" or the like will usually turn up some, easily verified. Then just configure them and forget the crappy ISP ones.