Possible Solution to all your DNS troubles

Acathla · 13-12-2004, 19:27

I thought it about time i shared this with you.
I know there have been tons of dns problems with NTL over the last oh say 75 years but last year I sought to try and stop using the NTL's dns and came across a program called Treewalk DNS which uses BIND-PE.

From the website: http://www.ntcanuck.com/

Quote:

TreeWalk DNS is a Domain Name Server program which fetches and converts Web Site names into addresses your computer needs so that your browser, email, icq, and ftp programs can surf the Web. For Microsoft WindowsÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â ® XP /2000 /.NET /2003 workstations or servers.

The install process is as easy as pie and the install program is small enough to fit on a floppy (if you remember them).

Install it, reboot, set your adapter to use 127.0.0.1 as DNS (more to come as its not as easy as you would hope) make sure the service is running and bang off you go

Right to set your DNS server to 127.0.0.1.
Simplest way to do it is run this little app I came across: http://www.bayern-surf.de/PS/extradns/setdns.exe
Sets the DNS of all your adapters to 127.0.0.1.

You should however be able to do it through the registry but the app gets my vote! Maybe someone can provide details for manual setting if required.
(You cant set it through your adapter properties cause it doesnt like an address of 127.0.0.1 [on winxp anyway])

I've been using treewalk now for about a year and love it.

I am by no means an expert but I will keep an eye on this thread and offer any help if you need it.

Oh and you wanna know the best bit? It's FREE!!

Have fun!

Steven

EDIT: Here is a direct link to the app: http://www.ntcanuck.com/DL/TreeWalk.exe

paulyoung666 · 13-12-2004, 19:32

i thought 127.0.0.1. was a loopback to your own machine

Acathla · 13-12-2004, 19:32

It is cause you be running the DNS server on your own machine

13-12-2004, 19:34

Not aware of any problems wih NTLs DNS servers, only their p(r)oxy servers. In any case, AFIK, there is nothing to stop you using any DNS server(s) out there. I'm not sure what advantage there is in running a local DNS server (but I'm willing to learn).

Acathla · 13-12-2004, 19:35

It will also cache locally all your DNS queries so speed up lookups in the future.

Graham M · 13-12-2004, 19:37

Just a point but where does the local DNS servers get its DNS information from, surely it would go to NTL's servers?

Acathla · 13-12-2004, 19:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeph

Just a point but where does the local DNS servers get its DNS information from, surely it would go to NTL's servers?

Gets them from root-dns servers: http://root-dns.org/zones.htm

Ones like ICANN ORSC and what I use atm ORSN.