Secondary DNS server addresses

[begoodbebad]

I am looking for help/advice on DNS. I want to set up secondary DNS server addresses as my ISP has problems with certain websites, ZP ed2k forum thread (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=16567) .
I understand how to set up preferred and alternate DNS server address in XP network connections device tcp/ip properties but am not sure how I should go about choosing a DNS server. And naturally I don't want to pay anyone :cross
Anyone able to advise?

[crackerjacker]

You can go to this site below and the program is free.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm.

There is a program called FastCache. Make sure to read about what it says on that page. http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm.


They will also link you to a webattack page for more information about dns go here http://www.webattack.com/dns.html.

peace

[begoodbebad]

You can go to this site below and the program is free.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm.

There is a program called FastCache. Make sure to read about what it says on that page. http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc.htm.


They will also link you to a webattack page for more information about dns go here http://www.webattack.com/dns.html.

peace

Thanks crackerjacker, this was interesting but I am not sure it is what I was looking for. It seems to be a mechanism for caching DNS entries on your PC and pointing your network adapter to them to avoid searching via a remote DNS server.
What (I believe) I need is alternative web based DNS server addresses to the one I am automatically directed to by my ISP. Maybe I don't know what I need exactly but this is how it looks to me.

[isus]

somebody who doesn't have a lot of problems with their isp could go to their network properties and give you their primary... but i would think that unless you came off of the same "network", they would deny you access.

but it can't hurt to try anyway. if no one has responded by the time i get home, i'll post one of mine.

[crackerjacker]

Thanks crackerjacker, this was interesting but I am not sure it is what I was looking for. It seems to be a mechanism for caching DNS entries on your PC and pointing your network adapter to them to avoid searching via a remote DNS server.
What (I believe) I need is alternative web based DNS server addresses to the one I am automatically directed to by my ISP. Maybe I don't know what I need exactly but this is how it looks to me.

its cool check this out http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/DNS/
it seems to have many links for dns information. also alternative dns settings. i dunno to much but its good to learn about.
peace

[begoodbebad]

its cool check this out http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/DNS/
it seems to have many links for dns information. also alternative dns settings. i dunno to much but its good to learn about.
peace


This one did the trick, there is a link to ZODNS free Domain Name service. They list the ip address of their primary and secondary dns servers to help people with their Domain Name registration....and now I have alternative DNS address servers to access for when my ISP screws it up again. Yes it's good to learn stuff but sometimes I would settle for being ignorant and having everything work by itself! Maybe in my next life.....

@Isus, thanks for that, funnily I tried the same thing this morning, found out the DNS address server IPs for NTL, another big UK ISP and the main competition here for cable modem broadband. The weird thing was that while my ISP's own DNS is currently working ok(at last) the NTL servers screwed up with exactly the same pages I had trouble with last week.... :error

Anyway thanks to both of you for your help. I'm heading to the fileheaven forum now to give the good news to the other blueyonder isp customers who had this same trouble...if they can access it to read it of course.