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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:05:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "private" DNS by-passing my ISPs? (Was: Re: /etc/hosts vs. DNS  for          local-only machines)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112171301540.5153-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011217134638.A4572@foo31-249.visit.se>

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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Martin Karlsson wrote:

> This may be a _very_ stupid question, but here goes:
>
> Is it possible for me to run my own DNS-server, which will "by-pass" my
> ISPs ditto?

That depends. Good, innit? In this case, it depends on whether your ISP
is filtering/intercepting DNS traffic. If they've got problems keeping
their own DNS running, then that may be unlikely.

You just need to set up a caching nameserver.

This is, of course, providing that doing to doesn't violate your terms
and conditions - which is unlikely: if that _is_ the case, then you may
want to look at switching ISPs (_politely_ letting the last lot know
why; feedback can only help).


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