[kwlug disc.] www.google.ca does not resolve

[john at netdirect.ca]

kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org wrote on 08/26/2008 01:35:55 AM:

> You answered my question. I am not sure I want to use one entry from
> OpenDNS and one from Rogers in the long term, but in the short term I
> am manually trying OpenDNS on my workstation. I lose my intranet DNS
> services if I use OpenDNS for both, so I set one to my intranet DNS
> server and one to OpenDNS. 
> 
> Why is it silly to use one Rogers DNS entry and one OpenDNS one?

Have the best of both. Configure your intranet DNS to use openDNS by 
configuring "forwarders" in the "options{}" section. 
https://www.opendns.com/start?device=bind

If you happen to be saddled by Microsoft DNS there are other OpenDNS docs 
on configuring that.

If you configure forwarders, the DNS server will go to them for answers 
instead of trying the root zones.

I think this was originally designed so that large networks could appoint 
a few name servers to hold a rich cache of results thereby reducing the 
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