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Re: Another Safari puzzle

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On 2014-03-17, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <boosd6Fi7e5U1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> One possibility that comes to mind is that DNS resolution is failing
>> intermittently, which could cause a similar type of behavior. When web
>> pages fail in this way, it would be good to know whether DNS requests
>> are being handled correctly at that time. If you are using your ISPs DNS
>> servers, you might consider switching to OpenDNS, which is free and
>> typically much more reliable than ISP offerings:
>> 
>> <http://www.opendns.com>
>
> I don't have anything against openDNS (even hi-jacking the unknown 
> results -- it's a free service after all) but they fail far more often 
> than Google's DNS. I've got them as my secondary server. Of course, they 
> don't fail as much as my ISP's DNS servers do.

That's interesting. I haven't had name lookups through OpenDNS *ever*
fail that I can remember.

I dislike Google's practices with regard to data collection and so on;
so I won't be sending all of my DNS through them any time soon.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-17 17:48 +0000
  Re: Another Safari puzzle Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-03-17 14:05 -0400
    Re: Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-17 21:35 +0000
      Re: Another Safari puzzle Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 22:27 +0000
      Re: Another Safari puzzle Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-26 16:03 +0100
        Re: Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-26 16:20 +0000
  Re: Another Safari puzzle Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 18:15 +0000
    Re: Another Safari puzzle Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 16:31 -0400
      Re: Another Safari puzzle Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 22:26 +0000
  Re: Another Safari puzzle Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-03-17 23:39 -0700
    Re: Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-18 13:34 +0000

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