Is the transparent proxy supposed to be working properly yet?

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ptinson

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#376500 4-Sep-2010 10:38

PenultimateHop: It's also just a best practice. By not using your ISP's DNS servers you are most likely making your own Internet experience worse, as content delivery networks like Akamai, Limelight, and Google all rely on DNS tricks to figure out where you are. Using an out of network DNS server most likely means you will get worse performance due to being sent to the wrong CDN platforms.

Yes sorry I should have included the issues around CDN in the gotcha's...
Thanks for that.

Paul

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chriswiggins

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#376503 4-Sep-2010 10:43

Thanks for the tips! Main reason I kept the caching feature of DNS is because of the last time the Telecom DNS servers failed :P

Cheers,
Chris

julianz

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#376510 4-Sep-2010 11:13

If this means ISP's have better DNS servers now, then good stuff. The only reason I started using OpenDNS previously is that Vodafone's servers were utterly pitiful. Telecom's haven't been that bad.

chriswiggins

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#376807 5-Sep-2010 10:43

For those of you using Bind as your DNS servers and need to change them to query Telecom's DNS servers add this to your named.conf (under the options section):

forward first;
forwarders { 202.27.158.40; 202.27.156.72; };

What this will do is forward the queries to Telecom's DNS servers if named does not have a zone file for the zone you are querying. If Telecom's DNS servers fail, named will then go and find the answer itself by using the db.root file. Note: you could change forward first to forward only but in the case of the Telecom DNS servers not resolving your query for some reason, named will not go and find the answer itself.

Hope this helps some people.

Cheers
Chris

lissie

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#383256 22-Sep-2010 17:03

I am having proxy issues with specific websites - is there a way around using the telecom proxies - they are making some of my own sites unusable. I am using a telecom thomson modem - but I could swap to a dlink if that would make it easier to get around the proxies

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ptinson

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#383355 22-Sep-2010 21:49

lissie: I am having proxy issues with specific websites - is there a way around using the telecom proxies - they are making some of my own sites unusable. I am using a telecom thomson modem - but I could swap to a dlink if that would make it easier to get around the proxies

Hi Lissie,

If you have a static IP then you can be placed in the bypass list, its the simplest way to bypass the proxy if required.

Regards

Paul

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