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Old 25-08-2008, 14:43   #11
Horace
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Re: Virgin & DNS Servers

I'd rather not have all those horribly busy and often congested London (notice London is misspelt in the later hops? )based links between me and my DNS. OpenDNS also often randomly blocks legitimate sites which I've mention before in my arguments against it.
If VM's DNS was as horrible as BT's (used to be) then fine but VM's DNS has worked flawlessly for me for years.

Code:
 1     2 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
 2    35 ms    14 ms     6 ms  10.133.224.1
 3    20 ms    26 ms    28 ms  midd-t2cam1-b-ge94.network.virginmedia.net [213.106.238.221]
 4    10 ms     7 ms    25 ms  midd-t3core-1b-ge-011-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.176.117]
 5     7 ms    26 ms     9 ms  cache1.service.virginmedia.net [194.168.4.100]
Code:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    14 ms     9 ms    11 ms  10.133.224.1
  3    10 ms     8 ms    10 ms  midd-t2cam1-b-ge94.network.virginmedia.net [213.106.238.221]
  4    10 ms     6 ms     9 ms  midd-t3core-1b-ge-011-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.176.117]
  5    18 ms    19 ms    25 ms  man-bb-b-so-310-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.75.49]
  6    20 ms    37 ms    17 ms  po6-0.mctbb1.Manchester.opentransit.net [193.251.250.105]
  7    26 ms    25 ms    26 ms  po10-0.brsbb1.Bristol.opentransit.net [193.251.242.133]
  8    30 ms    30 ms    48 ms  so-5-2-0-0.loncr5.London.opentransit.net [193.251.243.37]
  9    26 ms    27 ms    28 ms  p16-2-0-2.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8.49]
 10    26 ms    31 ms    24 ms  xe-4-4.r01.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.66]
 11    26 ms    25 ms    20 ms  83.231.146.198
 12    25 ms    35 ms    35 ms  resolver1.opendns.com [208.67.222.222]
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