GRRR! bsnl changed their DNS servers

[greenhorn]

after two days without net, finally figured out that bsnl hand changed their southern DNS servers to
218.248.240.181
218.248.240.180

a headsup to anyone who is using manual config

 

[Anish]

Why are you still on BSNL DNS servers?

OpenDNS FTW.

 

[SumitB]

I have been experiencing the same over the last few days. BSNL has something going on with their servers. I have tried many DNS servers. If we do a nslookup, I get this:

> server 218.248.240.180

DNS request timed out.

timeout was 2 seconds.

Default Server: [218.248.240.180]

Address: 218.248.240.180

The same is the case with OpenDNS servers.

Anyone has got any ideas?

 

[Nemesis_41]

^^ +1 OpenDNS Ftw!

 

[greenhorn]

if you type a few keywords in the adress bar, in firefox, otherwise it goes to the google I'm feeling lucky page

on openDNS however, you're redirected to an opendns search results page :|

and googling seems slower with opendns, so no go

 

[adder]

^^ +1 OpenDNS Ftw!

what is a openDNS?:ashamed:

 

[hullap]

what is a openDNS?:ashamed:

OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster Internet

its much better then crap mtnl servers
and, there is one more dns server, not sure whose it is,
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.1
working very well on my sys

 

[krishnavamshi24]

Yes go for Open DNS way way better than any of the DNS servers provided by some of the local isp's

 

[Party Monger]

I dont like open dns, All the safety and stuff enabled by default so that we register an account there..Thanks, but no thanks..I prefer the crappy bsnl dns servers..

 

[6pack]

i tried using open dns but looks like bsnl does not support it cause browsing becomes painfully slow if i use those dns servers.

 

[harmandeep]

I have been experiencing the same over the last few days. BSNL has something going on with their servers. I have tried many DNS servers. If we do a nslookup, I get this:
> server 218.248.240.180
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Default Server: [218.248.240.180]
Address: 218.248.240.180

The same is the case with OpenDNS servers.

Anyone has got any ideas?

Bold marked - it states that nslookup tried Reverse resolution for that it nd the query was times out .

 

[Apex]

DNS Advantage works better than OpenDNS, for me at least.

In any case, both are better than the crappy BSNL servers.

 

[Party Monger]

^ hey i was the one that told everyone abt it and got pwned cause their damn servers were offline that day

 

[Aman27deep]

sorry, but what the f do we do with all this dns thingy? :ashamed:

 

[Supra]

sorry, but what the f do we do with all this dns thingy?

go f with ur guitar & dont give this DNS thing a damn care :rofl:

 

[medpal]

DNS Advantage works better than OpenDNS, for me at least.

In any case, both are better than the crappy BSNL servers.

thanks for the suggestion.

have been using opendns for a long period of time, but since last few weeks the experience of google related services has been troublesome lets see how this fares.

 

[Dark Star]

Whats the advantage of having a different DNS ? I get low speeds in Torrent while full speed direct download? WIll changing it solve it ?

 

[greenhorn]

dns shouldnt make a bit difference with torrents ( actually my torrents were working fine even after the dns servers went down )

 

[roadrippersid]

i had probs wit bhista and i was like wats wrong wit my net ... then i asked fren for dns servers added and walah.....

 

[SumitB]

@greenhorn: Is your Dataone working fine today? My connection is extremely slow. I am getting pings to google in excess of 1100ms. I have tried all possible BSNL DNS servers and also opendns but in vain. I am clueless as to what these buggers at BSNL are upto!