I think my university's DNS servers are either broken or overloaded at the moment because whilst download speeds are really fast and all non-web traffic works fine (FTP, MSN, DC++ etc), web browsing performance switches between "cannot load any pages" and "loads pages really slowly" every minute or so. Several other people have confirmed this, it's not just me. I thought I'd try just using OpenDNS instead but they block any outgoing requests on port 53.
I don't think that IT Services will be able to help so I'm looking for a way around this port blocking. Is there any way of using a different port to send DNS requests out? Or maybe a local proxy program I can run on my PC? Someone suggested "DeleGate" but it won't let me access the FTP download site even when following their instructions and it also looks really complicated, so is there something simpler I could try?
Any ideas are welcome.
EDIT: Using routers on the network is prohibited (although AFAIK they have no way of detecting this) but even if this was a possible solution I'd need an ethernet/cable router, which I no longer have.
I don't think that IT Services will be able to help so I'm looking for a way around this port blocking. Is there any way of using a different port to send DNS requests out? Or maybe a local proxy program I can run on my PC? Someone suggested "DeleGate" but it won't let me access the FTP download site even when following their instructions and it also looks really complicated, so is there something simpler I could try?
Any ideas are welcome.
EDIT: Using routers on the network is prohibited (although AFAIK they have no way of detecting this) but even if this was a possible solution I'd need an ethernet/cable router, which I no longer have.
) and changing the dns port by editing the iptables. I know there's at leaset one free dns server running on port 100 & something, but I can't find it now 