[plug] iinet freezone

Wed Jan 7 14:38:34 WST 2009

No thats not what I was saying. Sorry for the miscommunication. All I
meant was that if you do use iinets DNS servers they will always be
contactable given the redundant nature of the design.

I am surprised to hear the problems you have been having. I have been
using the iiNet DNS servers for years, either directly or via a
forwarder in my own DNS cache and I have never had any problems.

Adam.

>
> So let me get this right, you are telling me that iinet have implemented a
> transparent type of DNS cache? ie my dns servers will be forced to use
> iinet's cached dns?  That doesn't seem quite right because I use specific
> dns servers to lookup specific names when i have issues... using a
> transparent dns cache would screw that all up.
>
>
>
> At 09:51 AM 7/01/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> Further to this, there was a period a number of years ago when iiNets
>> DNS servers were problematic (mostly not being connectable), however
>> they redesigned the entire DNS infrastructure to make it nationally
>> redundant, ie. it doesn't matter where you are or what server fails
>> you will always have DNS connectivity. I would suggest that you retest
>> them and see if the issues that you experienced are still around.
>>
>> Adam.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Robby Cribbes <Robby at cribbes.com> wrote:
>> > .  Who wants to watch
>> > youtube live... lag, latency... pft.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Ill simply point out iiNet runs their own caches. (maybe not youtube,
>> > but iirc *.l.google.com is cache)
>> >
>> >
>> > Running your own dns server without using iiNet's dns as a forwarder
>> > will only result in one thing. Using a random cache your recurrser will give
>> > you. Also it can have an effect on the freezone, like apple/itunes
>> > downloads.
>> >
>> > Frankly I prefer the pool inside the core ii-network.
>> >
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
>> > Behalf Of Niffum
>> > Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:26 AM
>> > To: plug at plug.org.au
>> > Subject: RE: [plug] iinet freezone
>> >
>> > Looks like i missed something... Here I was thinking that the 'free
>> > zone' was anything connected to waix... I wasn't very impressed when
>> > i clicked on 'freezone' on the iinet web page and it came up with all
>> > this crap... I saw a mention of a plugin to block flash in
>> > firefox.  I use noscript in firefox.  Nothing funnier than blocking
>> > statistics that go back to google.... its amazing what web developers
>> > now think they can do... must believe that no one is watching.  Its
>> > nice to have a little control over what content _I_ want my browser to
>> > play.
>> >
>> > I saw a mention to iiNets NASA feed and the use of telnet.  I like
>> > using wget then i can chop chop and follow the trail till i find the
>> > content I want and play it how i want to play it.
>> >
>> > Its also along the lines of websites that make it difficult to
>> > download content... they want to 'own' the content... but usually the
>> > content was never their content to start with.  Who wants to watch
>> > youtube live... lag, latency... pft. the plugin for firefox called
>> > DownloadHelper seems to download flv files right from youtube so i
>> > can watch them without any pauses...skips...and i don't have to screw
>> > around trying to find a link, it just does it for me.
>> >
>> > I would ring iinet support, but i have a feeling iinet support would
>> > be the kind of support that would sell me an adsl1 filter for
>> > adsl2+... or they would tell me to check my dns settings (I run my
>> > own two dns servers ,one for good luck, iinets have never been much
>> > much chop for me)
>> >
>> > I use the ftp site for my debian sources.list, but it seems to be as
>> > stable as the iinet name servers... when i want it, it doesn't
>> > work.  I only use it because its apparently part of the 'freezone'.
>> >
>> >
>> > At 10:11 AM 1/01/2009, you wrote:
>> >>Thanks Bernd
>> >>That link looks like what I am looking for.I am finally back to
>> >>where I was before iinet decided to upgrade their site.
>> >>Correspondence with iinet support would indicate either they don't know
>> >>their product or they don't want people to be using ftp because as far
>> >>as they are concerned you either have flash installed or you can't use
>> >>the free zone.
>> >>
>> >>Thanks for all your help guys.
>> >>
>> >>Cheers
>> >>Innis
>> >>
>> >
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