From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 12:48:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0908011048w6c167d6di7abe020954815d25@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h51shp$jpv$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Remy Blank<remy.blank@pobox.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them:
>>
>> 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :)
>> 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to
>> advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but...
>> 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every invalid address resolve to an
>> address anyway, which when viewed in a web browser goes to an "error"
>> page (full of advertisements and "sponsored links"). You never know if
>> a hostname is really invalid or not, which makes troubleshooting
>> non-HTTP connections interesting.
>
> Time to switch to http://www.opendns.com/ ?
>
> (I haven't used them, but they seem to be recommended a lot theses days)
I'm already not using my ISP's DNS server. I was just outlining my
reasons for that (in case the fact that I don't use theirs is causing
my problem). :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-01 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-01 14:53 [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers Paul Hartman
2009-08-01 16:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-01 16:56 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-01 17:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2009-08-01 17:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-01 17:42 ` Arttu V.
2009-08-01 17:48 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2009-08-01 17:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Robin Atwood
2009-08-01 17:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-01 17:46 ` Dale
2009-08-01 18:09 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-05 23:39 ` Paul Hartman
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