
For years I've struggled with bad DNS servers in South Africa, and now that Tiscali (formerly referred to ad World OFFline) and
M-Web are the same company, their DNS is equally slow. Some days you have to refresh almost every page just to get it to load.

ADSL has improved things a bit, when the DNS servers work at all. I have a list of local DNS servers that keeps changing: 196.43.1.11, 196.43.1.14, 196.25.1.1, 196.25.255.34. The problem is that at times they ALL stop working, or take ages to time out, causing delays and timeouts, even on better browsers such a Firefox.

Now I've added two more DNS servers to the mix: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. They are the servers run by
OpenDNS, a free service. The difference has been noticeably better, unless the international link is down, in which case everything is then broken anyway.
OpenDNS: Providing A Safer And Faster DNS
1 comment:
South Africa's DNS works fine. Why are you complaining about this kind of rubbish, you spoilt racist bastard
Post a Comment