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From: Char Jackson on 11 Jan 2010 15:15
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:45:54 -0800, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:

>In article
><18c88f9c-2b27-42eb-8b95-b43cbcea8aaa(a)m3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
> TBerk <bayareaberk(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Most TCP/IP configurations have two places for DNS enties, most of the
>> time they are the default provided by a given ISP.
>
>Only two?
>
>OS X allows for a list of DNS; pretty much as many as you care to give
>it. I expect that would be true of other UNIX variants, also.

Same with WinXP, and most likely other Windows variants, but I don't
think there's much to be gained by going beyond two or three.

>The reason to have several is to have a fallback if one is
>unreachable/fails/is overloaded.
>
>When I used Comcast I learned to keep a list, because they never managed
>to figure out how to make their DNS work very reliably.

When I used Comcast, I learned to use a non-Comcast DNS. ;-)

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