OT: google has free accessible neame servers now

Google has made available two free accessible name servers. ISP nameservers have often difficult to remember IP addresses, and sometimes do not work all the time. Google has started proving a name server service, the following addresses work: nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4

(For Linux users, enter this in /etc/resolv.conf if you do not run a 'named' locally)

This also implies that google controls where you go if you type the name of some site... But that may actually be an advantage if you live in a place like for example China that tries to kill the freedom in the internet.

Can also be handy to test your net connectivity; ping 8.8.8.8 is easy to remember.

Maye be a bit slower then your ISP's if it is further away.

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Jan Panteltje
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locally)

some site...

China that tries to kill the freedom in the internet.

How did Google get an 8. top domain? That would be one of the ARPANET original founding entities...for example, I used to work for HP...14.

-bill

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Bill Martin

work:

locally)

some site...

China that tries to kill the freedom in the internet.

FWIG, 8.*.*.* is owned by Level 3 Communications, the company that runs most of the Internet Backbone. Maybe Google got that address from them, or it's really L3C's. Yep, I had several fixed 9. addresses.

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krw

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