Dale, What's to prevent me from simply pointing to your DNS and using that to resolve 'names'? I've had to set up my Wintel box here to 'point' at other DNS's when my ISP's DNS was 'hosed up' ... RF (and obvioulsly not *only* RF) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Botkin" To: Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Mchip website down ? (2008 SAT 30 NOV 2002 UTC) > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, cdb wrote: > > > If Optus is your home ISP they have not got their DNS server set > > correctly. If you type in the physical URL 198. what ever it is the > > Microchip site appears, but www,microchip.com comes up with a 404 > > error. > > > > No one at Optus support seems bothered. > > I am **SO** glad I run my own DNS server. Seems most ISPs are pretty much > clueless any more. I used to own & run an ISP, back when it was new and > the average IQ on the Net was a few points higher. Back then you'd be > laughed out of town if you hosed up DNS, now it's no big deal. > > Guys, if you have a spare old Pantium box around - hell, even a 486 - load > up Linux or BSD and run the latest BIND. End of DNS problems. It's not > rocket science. > > Dale > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body