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RCN DNS?



On 3/5/07, Scott R Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote:
> My parents, who live in Arlington, MA have RCN for Phone, Cable, and Internet.
>
> About a month ago the DNS server RCN provides them went south, so I pointed
> their PC to another, more reliable, DNS server.   Routing now seems dead, as
> DNS has again failed.   The DNS I pointed them to is just a couple hops away
> and is 100% reliable.
>

I've always preferred to run my own DNS server. By having it local,
I get much better performance than I would from a DNS server
outside my home network.

A quick google search turned up a couple DNS servers for Windows.
BIND 9 is supported on Windows, for example:

    http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/

If you need a GUI and you don't mind a closed-source solution,
there's also SimpleDNS:

    http://www.simpledns.com


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