[PLUG] Stupid ISP...
Chuck Hast
wchast at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 22:18:21 UTC 2017
Can't do it, that was one of the first things I tried to do. They have it
all hardwired
on. I checking the other ISP options, making sure that whatever I get
allows me
to change those things I need to change. Shudder, Cox is looking a lot
better in
this case.
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 16:47 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > Folks,
> > I have moved from SW WA to Oklahoma City. Miss the area up there but
> > got to
> > go where the $$ is.
> >
> > I have run into a problem, it is with the ISP. Seems that they no
> > longer
> > allow you
> > to plug in your prefered DNS. I was having issues with their DNS I
> > have
> > called
> > them on it, and they poke at it but no joy. Yesterday I could get to
> > about
> > half
> > to the URL's that I either tried to reach from a browser or ping.
> > After much
> > phone calls, to no avail I did a MTR on the two DNS which are
> > HARDWIRED
> > in the router. I found that the primary DNS was good but 4 hops out
> > there
> > is a router with a high packet loss. To wit:
> >
>
> Turn off DNS. Used fixed IPs for everything behind the router. Use a
> VPN to tunnel past your ISPs crappy infrastructure.
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Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
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