On 03/29/2013 09:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 29/03/2013 10:53, Norman Rieß wrote:
>>> That is just evil. Have you no alternative to this ISP?
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>>>> Peter
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>> Like free and open DNS servers? ;-) Like the one i am talking about and
>> was told it was unnessesary crap?
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> When you describe the service you DO get from your ISP, then we can see
> that rolling your own is the proper alternative for you. Unless your ISP
> block outbound port 53...

It'd be trivial enough for someone in a saner spot to privately offer
him an allowed-clients entry in a DNS server listening on a non-standard
port.

Either way, it's still important he not allow just anybody to connect to
his resolver.

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> If you were in Africa, I could give you an alternative but sadly I don't
> think you are in Africa
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