DNS issues?

For the last few days I've been having intermittent problems accessing some sites, including BBC and Google. Going via the IP address for the BBC today worked fine though, when www.bbc.co.uk didn't - is this a common problem, or more likely to be an issue with my PC?

Same here intermittently, also with www.avforums.com and windows live search


Lee

Use www.opendns.com And change your settings accordingly, Haven't had DNS issues in well over a month now, and it's faster than Plusnet's!

Thanks for that.

I have been having intermittent DNS issues all night - put the OpenDNS entries in my router setup and everything is fine and dandy

Whats the catch?? why provide free dns servers??



Lee

When a server cannot be resolved, they take you to a page with search results. Some of these being sponsored.

You can turn this off though, so it's just free dns with no strings.

Glad I could help. I know how frustrating it is!

No strings attached to the DNS servers!

Thanks so much! Immediate improvement, and I can actually use google!

Mercury_1 - thank you very much for this. Works a treat

I have just found that 212.159.6.10 is failing, unable to surf but changed it to 212.159.6.9 and its all fine. I have 212.159.13.50 as my 2nd DNS. Is this all correct?

Another Q, in my DHCP, should I set the DNS to the router (which does work), or should I hand out the above DNS servers under DHCP??????


Thanks.