On 10/11/13 19:54, Tim wrote:
There is a chance that you could still use an outside DNS service, if you can access one that uses a different port than your ISP is intercepting. This would, also, depend on you either making up TCP/IP redirection rules on your gateway so your clients queries go to that unusual port. Or, running your own DNS server on a PC. You'd configure your clients to use that DNS server as a normal DNS server, and you'd configure the DNS server to do the unusual port queries. ISPs are notorious for having awful DNS services, particularly ones that play silly games with forcing you to use them. So running your own DNS server, that's totally under your control, can be quite advantageous. The mini DNS servers in some modem/routers are awful, and have no configuration options. Some modem/routers don't have a DNS server, they simply act as a proxy between you and the ISP supplied DNS server IPs.
Yes,when I began using this service I was advised not to try to work around their system since it would result in my being charged for higher usage and my allotment is limited. Further more their system does other things that I don't want to lose, namely the "free time" during the wee hours when I can allow the Apple computers to connect with iCloud, etc. DD-WRT is configured to deal with thatand as I say it all works except for this intermittent loss of DNS that has cropped up recently.
Normally the system works well, I don't want to change it, I just need to convince them there is a DNS problem and I think it is in their system. This thread has provided some help in how to do that.
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