Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:46:43 -0500 From: JimR User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120223 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Is my home network set up right? References: <4lmn19-ruo.ln1@myleafnode.oneyv.org> <87pqd2pwfk.fsf@araminta.anjou.terraraq.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <87pqd2pwfk.fsf@araminta.anjou.terraraq.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3eqn19-dv4.ln1@myleafnode.oneyv.org> Lines: 13 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: fe0b469e.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=\H7QXnIalWm^5mDXS]l4MgL?0kYOcDh@j2AWVo<6C[Tb0WDN7dFMi;hF79L24X4?_a[gCdNKk8eHl8YQODikNG:o_joX:96eIYl0D9am3HTlna Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.networking:1107 On 02/25/2012 02:03 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote: {snip}> > Where did you get those numbers from? > 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.4 DNS servers belong to Level 3 Communications. Can't remember exactly, but wherever I read them indicated that Level 3 Communications is fairly close to the top of the domain tree, so they are a reliable source for DNS. Do you have a better suggestion? JimR