Impacts of SOPA on BT

**OlegL** · 01-21-2012, 06:05 AM

I don't know much about networking, but isn't it true that each ISP provides only a limited number of DNS servers for its customers? How can you keep switching between alternate DNS servers if there aren't many servers to choose from? I don't know if a DNS server can be hidden by a proxy.
...But I don't know if the things I said even make sense. I don't know shit about networking.

**anon** · 01-21-2012, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by OlegL

I don't know much about networking, but isn't it true that each ISP provides only a limited number of DNS servers for its customers? How can you keep switching between alternate DNS servers if there aren't many servers to choose from?

The amount of name servers they may operate is limited, but you're free to use whatever ones you wish instead of theirs. If you know the DNS IPs of another provider, which may not even be in your own country, you can use that instead. Or you can even run your own server locally and have it connect directly to the Internet root nameservers.

**OlegL** · 01-21-2012, 06:48 PM

That's interesting.

**mjmacky** · 01-21-2012, 09:48 PM

I use a DNS server meant for the public school system employees, but only because it's super fucking fast here (comparatively).

**stoi** · 01-21-2012, 10:39 PM

I have to be honest i havnt taken much notice of this at all, I should have done but with everything else that has been going on atm, I just havnt.

But from what I understand (and i could be completely wrong here) they have to get a court order, then they block the DNS to the Domain on that IP, so you cant get to the domain anymore, but most hosts have 5 ips per server and you can buy more for a couple of dollars each, so can the sites not just link the domain to another IP, this will open the domain up again, and they have to get another court order, which will cost more than a couple of dollars, rinse and repeat. I dont "think" it gives them rights to seize domains (they do that sometimes anyway i suppose).

Like i said though, i could be talking shite, or this PIPA which i know nothing about at all, may stop you from doing that.

**anon** · 01-21-2012, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by mjmacky

I use a DNS server meant for the public school system employees, but only because it's super fucking fast here (comparatively).

I was on OpenDNS before, but due to their stupid landing pages I switched to DNSResolvers. Apparently they're hosted in Canada.

**waffler** · 01-22-2012, 06:24 AM

I've always wondered, wouldn't switching to a DNS server apart from the one assigned by your ISP slow down page load times marginally ? I mean, my isp's DNS seems to work better than openDNS or Google DNS .

**mjmacky** · 01-22-2012, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by waffler

I've always wondered, wouldn't switching to a DNS server apart from the one assigned by your ISP slow down page load times marginally ? I mean, my isp's DNS seems to work better than openDNS or Google DNS .

It depends. In my case I remember my ISP's being 6th or 7th on the list. Best bet is to benchmark them, anon or Tesco recommended a program a while back. Was it namebench or DNSbench?