DNS servers in UK

As an authority on the subject, William Tasso proclaimed:

  >> Last night, the DNS server that my ISP uses died and so did the backup
  >> one!
 >
 > Any idea why? same network or ddos or what?

No idea. Trying to contact my ISP is like trying to catch flies with
chopsticks I just found that I suddenly couldn't access anything, but
noticed that irc was still connected so the connection was okay. It was
just not possible to connect to anything new without knowing the IP
off-hand.

<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.everydns.net/</font" target="_blank">http://www.everydns.net/</font</a>>

Hmm, I think I need to reword what I asked

I don't have any problems with the DNS for my domains, but the one that my
ADSL provider gives me to resolve domains when I am trying to access the
Internet -- i.e. the one that I put in the settings for my router!

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Dylan Parry wrote:
 > ...
 > Hmm, I think I need to reword what I asked
 >
 > I don't have any problems with the DNS for my domains, but the one
 > that my ADSL provider gives me to resolve domains when I am trying to
 > access the Internet -- i.e. the one that I put in the settings for my
 > router!


ahh - ok. DNS is still mostly an open service, for a temporary outage you
can use almost any name server you like. For more regular usage it is
considered good form to ask the admin for permission.

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Dylan Parry wrote:

 > So I was wondering if anyone knows of a good, reliable set of
 > UK alternatives that I can use instead of or in addition to the ones I am
 > currently using?

I use these ones:

  # Andrews & Arnold
  nameserver 217.169.20.20
  nameserver 217.169.20.21
  # OpenNIC - UK
  nameserver 194.164.6.112
  # OpenNIC - Europe
  nameserver 217.115.138.24
  nameserver 62.236.208.158
  nameserver 213.185.37.13
  # OpenNIC - Rest of World
  nameserver 207.6.128.247
  nameserver 61.206.130.242
  nameserver 202.89.131.4
  nameserver 209.104.63.240
  nameserver 209.104.63.241
  nameserver 216.107.80.42
  nameserver 144.162.120.230

Though I probably ought to update that list.

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I do all my registrations with <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.123-reg.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.123-reg.co.uk/</a> using their
nameservers, never ever had a problem with them, quick response from support
when I've asked for help, and their prices are very good by UK standards.



"Dylan Paro all myry" <usenet DeleteThis @dylanparry.com> wrote in message
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 > Last night, the DNS server that my ISP uses died and so did the backup
 > one! So I was wondering if anyone knows of a good, reliable set of
 > UK alternatives that I can use instead of or in addition to the ones I am
 > currently using?
 >
 > TIA
 >
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"Martin Harran" <nospam RemoveThis @martinharran.com> wrote in message
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 >I do all my registrations with <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.123-reg.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.123-reg.co.uk/</a> using their
 >nameservers, never ever had a problem with them, quick response from
 >support when I've asked for help, and their prices are very good by UK
 >standards.

The question is about resolvers not name servers for domain hosting.

For UK resolvers you could try Demon:

158.152.1.58
158.152.1.43



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As an authority on the subject, Gordon Hudson proclaimed:

 > For UK resolvers you could try Demon:
 > 158.152.1.58
 > 158.152.1.43

Cheers, I've stuck them as my tertiary and quaternary backups Hopefully
next time my own host's DNS buggers up (it's happened twice AFAIR) these
two will stop me from encountering too many problems

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Dylan Parry wrote:

 > tertiary and quaternary

You don't get Honours Degrees for nothing you know!

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As an authority on the subject, Charles Sweeney proclaimed:

  >> tertiary and quaternary
 >
 > You don't get Honours Degrees for nothing you know!

Didn't you know that my degree was "BSc Complex Pseudo-lingua with
Psycho-babble"? <g>

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"Gordon Hudson" <gordon RemoveThis @usenet2.hostroute.co.uk> wrote in message
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 > The question is about resolvers not name servers for domain hosting.


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In alt.www.webmaster Dylan Parry said:

 > Last night, the DNS server that my ISP uses died and so did the backup
 > one!

noooooooooooooooo!

 > So I was wondering if anyone knows of a good, reliable set of
 > UK alternatives

no but when i was having difficulties with my ISPs DNS i had a look to
see who their upstream was and tried their DNS and it worked.

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As an authority on the subject, brucie proclaimed:

 > no but when i was having difficulties with my ISPs DNS i had a look to
 > see who their upstream was and tried their DNS and it worked.

That sounds like a good idea... any pointers as to how I would go about
doing that?

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In alt.www.webmaster Dylan Parry said:

  >> no but when i was having difficulties with my ISPs DNS i had a look to
  >> see who their upstream was and tried their DNS and it worked.

 > That sounds like a good idea... any pointers as to how I would go about
 > doing that?

i'd really like to get technical so i could impress the hell out of you
but all i did was do a trace route to some random location to see who
was on the next hop from my ISP and googled for their DNS IPs.

<hangs head in shame/>

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