Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

[Steve Sobol <sjsobol () JustThe net>]

Peter John Hill wrote:

> I just don't want my wife to complain to me that she could not check her 
> email because "the Internet was broken"

Serious answer to a non-serious comment:

The group that reads this mailing list can be assumed to be more technically 
savvy than most people, right?

OK.

So, I run my own DNS server and have a guy providing three secondaries. I use 
mine and one of his (the one that is geographically distant from mine, as well 
as on a different segment of Internet), instead of my cable company's, because 
their DNS servers don't seem to see zone updates as quickly as I'd like them to 
see them.

I run my own mail server, from which my family's mailboxes are served. This is 
mainly due to my irrational preference to have 100% control over my email. ;)

No reason why others couldn't do something similar, unless Comcast is blocking 
53/udp (mainly) and 53/tcp. (NB: My cable company is not Comcast, but it is one 
of the other large providers. NB also that while I get my IP address via DHCP, 
I choose not to use the DNS servers offered to me when I renew my DHCP lease.)

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