Comcast DNS down again

[dquan97]

Another vote for openDNS

 

[Booty]

Also using OpenDNS. The basic filtering available with the free account helps keep my wife out of trouble...

 

[coloumb]

Awesome!

google and open seem to get the same amount of praises. Going with google for now as that's one less place to sign up.

 

[Adul]

Looks like a lot of people in the midwest are having trouble. I've switched to Google DNS until they sort things out.

why bother switching back?

Also using OpenDNS. The basic filtering available with the free account helps keep my wife out of trouble...

LOL I use it for family members to, and any business I do side work for.

 

[spidey07]

Awesome!

google and open seem to get the same amount of praises. Going with google for now as that's one less place to sign up.

I wouldn't send my DNS to a place that stands to profit and mine my web browsing.

It's incredibly easy to setup your own DNS server, can even just run it on your PC. And for anybody else, if you want to check if your dns resolution is working just type "nslookup" at a command prompt and then a DNS name like www.espn.com. If you get an IP back you're good.

 

[ViviTheMage]

hahaha, I didn't even know they were down, I use 4.2.2.2, and 4.2.2.3, my buddy asked why his internets wasn't working ... this fixed it for him

 

[spidey07]

hahaha, I didn't even know they were down, I use 4.2.2.2, and 4.2.2.3, my buddy asked why his internets wasn't working ... this fixed it for him

Those are level3s from what I remember.

 

[rudeguy]

I wouldn't send my DNS to a place that stands to profit and mine my web browsing.

here... I think you dropped your tinfoil hat.

Why do people care so much about this? I use Google for browsing, email, calendar, photos, cell phone and I make sure to log in to Google at work so that it can save my search history.

I still haven't even received a spam email from any of that.

So please, please tell me what it is you do online that is so important that you don't want Google to know.

 

[lxskllr]

I use OpenDNS for the filtering. When working properly, I don't notice any difference between the different DNS servers. Comcast's always worked well for me, but I haven't used them during this round of outages.