Free DNS provider?

DeadLOK · 10 Dec 2008 at 12:00

Im looking for a free dns provider other than OpenDNS that I can just stick in my network card settings to bypass my ISP.. any ideas?

Ross1234 · 10 Dec 2008 at 12:01

Is there anything wrong with OpenDNS? I use it.

Daegan · 10 Dec 2008 at 12:14

Telling us who your ISP is would help, considering some people offer alternative DNS services for customers of some ISPs, e.g. be/o2.

doozer · 10 Dec 2008 at 12:35

Looks like there is a few free ones here.
http://www.dnsadvantage.com/
http://www.scrubit.com/

Not tried any of them though so if they are horrible let us know

DeadLOK · 10 Dec 2008 at 12:36

through eclipse broadband.. yes opendns works fine but I cant really properly explain why I cant use it without going into lots of unnessasary detail.

DeadLOK · 10 Dec 2008 at 12:45

scrubit doesnt seem to work at all.. dns advantage works great though thanks

Deleted member 77746 · 10 Dec 2008 at 13:09

DeadLOK said:
through eclipse broadband.. yes opendns works fine but I cant really properly explain why I cant use it without going into lots of unnessasary detail.

Then go into lots of detail as there is nothing wrong with opendns.

DeadLOK · 10 Dec 2008 at 15:26

i didnt say there was I just said I couldnt use it in my situation.

Liquidfox · 11 Dec 2008 at 09:40

We use Microsoft DNS' if there's ever a problem, given to us by our friendly guys at SBS Critical Support

Nice and easy to remember: 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2. They do tend to stop working after a month or two however, probably IP based blocking.

garyh · 11 Dec 2008 at 09:48

Liquidfox said:
We use Microsoft DNS' if there's ever a problem, given to us by our friendly guys at SBS Critical Support

Nice and easy to remember: 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2. They do tend to stop working after a month or two however, probably IP based blocking.

Those are actually level3 DNS servers

not Microsoft's.

malef!c · 11 Dec 2008 at 17:20

Very easy to remember though - lot easier than trying to remember OpenDNS!!
/scribbled in my book of power

Sp00n · 11 Dec 2008 at 18:54

4.2.2.2 is one of my test ips when im diagnosing connections

zzzJonny · 12 Dec 2008 at 21:52

Nice, I'll try to remember that

Lemons_Mufc · 12 Dec 2008 at 22:28

What does this atually do? kinda confused.. :/

pennywise · 12 Dec 2008 at 23:52

http://www.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm

Assigning DNS servers manually bypasses potentially problematic, automatically assigned ISP DNS servers. I think Be/O2 have had problems in the past with DNS? As is the same with most things you aren't having problems or don't notice anything wrong, you've nothing really to worry about.