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On 11/07/2016 23:03, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2016-07-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 11/07/2016 22:29, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>> On 2016-07-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> why don't you go with the dns server addresses supplied by each |
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>>>> network's dhcp? Presumably the admin put them their because they |
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>>>> work on that network. |
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>>> One might think that, but I find it often not to be the case. I can |
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>>> recall many networks where the DNS servers returned by the DHCP server |
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>>> didn't work well at all, and things got a _lot_ better when I manually |
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>>> configured a couple working DNS servers (e.g. the Google ones at |
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>>> 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Around here, Comcast's DNS servers are famously |
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>>> bad. |
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>> Then shoot the idiot running that wireless network. |
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> You're not actually allowed to do that General Dreedle... |
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>> If he's one of my juniors, tell me so I can fire him (as he's just |
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>> proved he can't do the job he's paid to do) |
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> And if you're at a customer or vendor site? A friend's or relative's |
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> house? Using a municiple WiFi system? Using WiFi on an airplane, |
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> bus, train, whatever? |
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> Sometimes you just need to get along with people and get some work |
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> done. You always can't demand that things get done your way or |
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> somebody's gonna get fired or taken out back and beaten... |
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Pretty much always worked for me. I'm one of the guys that sets things |
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up so that guys like you have no reason to ever say "Around here, |
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Comcast's DNS servers are famously bad". Replace "Comcast" with the real |
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name of my real employer. If my team gets that wrong (and we never have |
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thus far), millions of people immediately and at once suffer. So forgive |
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me if I'm a tad touchy on the subject. |
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But seriously, if the dns servers provided by dhcp aren't up to snuff |
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then by all means put working ones in your resolv.conf. And also help |
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the owner of the network fix his config - there really is no excuse for |
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setting up software to tell people to use broken or badly behaved caches. |
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Alan |
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