[Dave Plowman (News)]

One of the car forums I'm a member of went down the other day. Firefox
reported site not found.

It has a 'sister' forum as a Facebook group, and it seemed only those
using BT Infinity had lost the main forum. And the forum administrator
reported that changing the DNS server in his BT router got it working on
his PC.

However, it seemed to be sorted a couple of days later without doing
anything here.

What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects you
to use?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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[Lee]

On 06/06/2016 14:49, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects you
to use?


Is BT one of the ISPs that does "Parental Controls" by DNS? If so that
feature then.

I use Open DNS, becuase VM's have, on occasion, been unreliable. Yes, I
am aware that it means that OpenDNS/Cisco knows which sites I visit.

[The Natural Philosopher[_2_]]

On 06/06/16 16:56, Lee wrote:
On 06/06/2016 14:49, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects you
to use?


Is BT one of the ISPs that does "Parental Controls" by DNS? If so that
feature then.

I use Open DNS, becuase VM's have, on occasion, been unreliable. Yes, I
am aware that it means that OpenDNS/Cisco knows which sites I visit.

You can run your own DNS anyway.

And see what sites your kids are visiting!


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If I had all the money I've spent on drink...
...I'd spend it on drink.

Sir Henry (at Rawlinson's End)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article ,
Lee wrote:
On 06/06/2016 14:49, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects
you to use?


Is BT one of the ISPs that does "Parental Controls" by DNS? If so that
feature then.

I dunno. Not needed here anyway.

I use Open DNS, becuase VM's have, on occasion, been unreliable. Yes, I
am aware that it means that OpenDNS/Cisco knows which sites I visit.

On the Facebook forum, the Google DNS server was recommended. That sort of
didn't appeal to me. ;-)

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*Rehab is for quitters.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

[Lee]

On 06/06/2016 17:15, Jethro_uk wrote:

Cleanfeed ? I thought it was below DNS level. Otherwise you could just
use OpenDNS/GoogleDNS and bypass it (which you can't).

It's the same system that blocks Piratebay sites. (With probably the same
effectiveness).

No Cleanfeed is a separate thing.
I meant "BT Protect", which is DNS based and apparently complains if
it's enabled and you try to switch DNS servers.

[Brian Gaff]

Well I'd have thought nothing at all, I've used several with Virgin and it
seems to work.
Not quite sure apart from looking up the real address what nameservers offer
over other nameservers, except different messages when things don't quite
work!

Brian

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One of the car forums I'm a member of went down the other day. Firefox
reported site not found.

It has a 'sister' forum as a Facebook group, and it seemed only those
using BT Infinity had lost the main forum. And the forum administrator
reported that changing the DNS server in his BT router got it working on
his PC.

However, it seemed to be sorted a couple of days later without doing
anything here.

What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects you
to use?

--
*Starfishes have no brains *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

[Brian Howie]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
One of the car forums I'm a member of went down the other day. Firefox
reported site not found.

It has a 'sister' forum as a Facebook group, and it seemed only those
using BT Infinity had lost the main forum. And the forum administrator
reported that changing the DNS server in his BT router got it working on
his PC.

However, it seemed to be sorted a couple of days later without doing
anything here.

What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects you
to use?


I switched mine from the default Demon provided ones to OpenDNS for
primary and Google for secondary. Poor reliability was the issue. The
Demon ones are still operating ; I've just pinged one.

I've never had any problems since I switched.

Brian
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[Andrew Gabriel]

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher writes:
On 06/06/16 16:56, Lee wrote:
On 06/06/2016 14:49, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


What are the pros and cons on changing the DNS server that BT expects you
to use?


Is BT one of the ISPs that does "Parental Controls" by DNS? If so that
feature then.

I use Open DNS, becuase VM's have, on occasion, been unreliable. Yes, I
am aware that it means that OpenDNS/Cisco knows which sites I visit.

You can run your own DNS anyway.

I've run my own since first having Demon dialup.
I used to dump the cache at the end of the call, and load it back
in again at the start of the next call, hoping it saved me some
performance at 14.4k.

I did come unstuck a few weeks ago. It seems I hadn't updated the
root.hint file for an ambarrasing number of years, and eventually
it all ground to a halt ;-) Fortunately easily fixed.

And see what sites your kids are visiting!

There are probably more accurate ways tp do that. The young kid's
PC gets to use openDNS, and not the real DNS.

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