I thought I had the latest namebench version but I had 1.2.1 from the same month that 1.3.1 was released. Mine was saying paypal appears incorrect (same as for facebook and twitter). I was puzzled about your report saying paypal was hijacked.
That loan became permanent some time later so that this sort of thing could not happen againĪre there any Level 3 servers near you? They don't redirect, remain open and free to users. Oceanic TWC had to wait from Monday morning until Thursday afternoon for the Regional Data Center at Orange Road Runner in Southern California to load them another DNS server. How come Rodgers only has the one? It must have backup servers. What if the only one you have gets clogged up one evening? I have experienced first hand the horrors of having my ISP's DNS servers (two of them) fail totally bringing down the entire Hawaii network for four days (this was business users also and started on a Monday morning back several years ago). Plus, you should have at least one backup DNS server. That is outrageous if Rogers is still getting away with this three years later!ĭustyn, most any other DNS server (except those redirecting) would be preferable to Rogers where opting out is not really opting out. Reliability is an important factor too.not just how fast they are. But I'd want at least one of mine to be non-ISP.maybe in third or fourth place. Rodgers probably has a backup DNS server (maybe more than one). They are really fast but eventually they notice you and kick you off if you are not a part of UH. I also used the University of Hawaii DNS servers for awhile. It was actually a bit faster than my ISP's servers but then they got in trouble. I'd add the first or second one on your list. Then I have a Level 3 server in fourth place. I use them as my second and third DNS servers along with one of the three Hawaii RR servers as my number one server. My ISP has two DNS servers that are not RoadRunner ones. I love Steve Gibson's DNSBenchmark and was a beta tester back when it was being developed. I didn't realize Rogers uses redirection. I wonder if Rogers has a second one I could input into my router? Or perhaps I can just use the next fastest DNS server on this list if I decide not to use something like OpenDNS, Symantec.ect. Now, at this time, I am only using one single DNS server with no backup. I have also RE-BUILT the local default DNS bench file (as it is biased to the United States EDIT: I HAVE ALSO INCLUDED THE BIASED UNITED STATES LIST) so that I get more reliable local servers. This is one reason why I'm thinking of changing from my default ISP DNS server more protection.Īccording to this result which I have run at different times of the day, it appears that my default ISP "Rogers Communications" is the 3rd fastest responding, most reliable DNS server. I'm guessing the main reasons for changing from your default ISP DNS server would be for potentially faster lookups, non-hijacked redirected search results, and malware/antivirus/phishing attempts that other 3rd party DNS servers can provide. And yes, it's just a bit smaller and more elegant than my old box-the entire thing is roughly the size of my old box's external cooling fan.Do you use your ISP's default DNS server? Or piggyback off of a potentially faster 3rd party DNS server Google, Symantec, OpenDNS, ClearCloud.ect. That's a Protectli fanless Firewall Appliance with a quad-core Celeron J3160 CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. (That way, I'll have a spare if the new one breaks…at least until that unsupported version of pfSense is released.) Here's the new box…
However, it's aging and its CPU won't be supported in an upcoming pfSense release, so I decided to replace it. While it's not the world's loveliest box…ok, so it may be the world's ugliest box…
I built a mini PC (a box roughly 9" per side) for pfSense, and it's been running smoothly for over five years 1 I'll be writing more about pfSense and my routing PCs in a future post.
At home, our network routing and firewall is handled by an open-source software package called pfSense® it has a ton of features, and is relatively easy to configure.