New DNS IP's coming

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Hi all

For those forcing DNS address's please could you take note of the following.

We have a new set of IP's for you.

The old ones will continue to the end of August or longer.

Please check if your routers or connections are forced. Below are the new address's which are already running.

I am sure we can make this a seamless process of change.


Johannesburg (Pretoria, Bloemfontein, PE, North West, Nelspruit, Polokwane):
Primary: 196.2.97.234
Secondary: 196.46.70.10
Third: 41.208.247.5

Cape Town:
Primary: 196.46.70.10
Secondary: 196.2.97.234
Third: 41.208.247.5

Durban (and Pietermaritzburg):
Primary: 41.208.247.5
Secondary: 196.46.70.10
Third: 196.2.97.234

Should anyone have a query regarding this please drop me an SMS, e-mail or call.

I will assist you further.


Thank you
 
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Well and good, but when can I put the machines that have people on 'em that:
  • misspell things
  • the boss may not want to go to places for which they have no business case
  • I'm basically protecting from the 'net and themselves (a la phishing and pharming)
back behind a router asking OpenDNS about what's out there?
 
Hi Shaun

Thanks for these, will plan for a site visit to check out the iBurst routers and assorted whatnots.

Regards

Libs
 
Hi all.


Early warning always works best. The old ones will continue through August.

Gives enough time to settle things and get them right.

Thanks
 
Hi bdt..

Sorry.... Missed your post.

Well and good, but when can I put the machines that have people on 'em that:

misspell things
the boss may not want to go to places for which they have no business case
I'm basically protecting from the 'net and themselves (a la phishing and pharming)
back behind a router asking OpenDNS about what's out there?

I am not too clear on your "mispell things" question.

If you are indicating that you want to use OpenDNS, please just recreate the account for the client and continue to use OpenDNS. The new OpenDNS accounts seem to have no problem being used with us.

Hope this clears things up.

Let me know.
 
iBurst said:
Hi bdt..

Sorry.... Missed your post.
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Ahhh, I knew there had to be a GOOD reason I got overlooked... :rolleyes:

I am not too clear on your "mispell things" question.

If you are indicating that you want to use OpenDNS, please just recreate the account for the client and continue to use OpenDNS. The new OpenDNS accounts seem to have no problem being used with us.
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OpenDNS will, like GOOG's offering to correct your (mis)spelling on a search, try to compensate for your mistyping a URL - say, for e.g. (and I'm not sure this is an actual one, just using it as an example) you try going to www.hormail.com (notice how r is next to t) and it takes you to www.hotmail.com anyway.

Anyhow, I'll put my router back to where it belongs now, ta.
 
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Bwhahaha

While we're at it, can i have a dns server that preempts what I'm typing in and then precaches everything before i push enter?

C'mon - its a name server, how's it meant to know u meant hotmail and not glomail?
 
iBurst said:
Hi all

For those forcing DNS address's please could you take note of the following.

We have a new set of IP's for you.

The old ones will continue to the end of August or longer.

Please check if your routers or connections are forced. Below are the new address's which are already running.

I am sure we can make this a seamless process of change.


Johannesburg (Pretoria, Bloemfontein, PE, North West, Nelspruit, Polokwane):
Primary: 196.2.97.234
Secondary: 196.46.70.10
Third: 41.208.247.5

Cape Town:
Primary: 196.46.70.10
Secondary: 196.2.97.234
Third: 41.208.247.5

Durban (and Pietermaritzburg):
Primary: 41.208.247.5
Secondary: 196.46.70.10
Third: 196.2.97.234

Should anyone have a query regarding this please drop me an SMS, e-mail or call.

I will assist you further.


Thank you
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Hi Shaun

Just out of interest sake why would a Service provider change their DNS IP addresses?
 
JustinB said:
Bwhahaha

While we're at it, can i have a dns server that preempts what I'm typing in and then precaches everything before i push enter?

C'mon - its a name server, how's it meant to know u meant hotmail and not glomail?
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*sigh* there's always a [-]dumbass[/-] smartalec. It's predictive typo correction. While it can get it wrong, like a cache-miss, it's worth it for the greater chance of getting the cache-hit.

Or is that too hard for you to comprehend?
 
NGGNNNGNNG!! :mad: EVERY.SINGLE.TIME I have drama with my own domain with which I send mail it's because itBust have stuffed something around again and, once more into the breach, this DNS IP change has broken access to my smtp.

THIS is why I refuse to use these clowns for anymore more than I absolutely have to.

OK, having gone back to the One True Service (id est OpenDNS) my network can now send email which means I get to not have my head chopped off at ankle level by pissed off users who can't send mail...
 
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bdt said:
*sigh* there's always a [-]dumbass[/-] smartalec. It's predictive typo correction. While it can get it wrong, like a cache-miss, it's worth it for the greater chance of getting the cache-hit.

Or is that too hard for you to comprehend?
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I understand fully what u r saying, but think of it as a dictionary, if u don't know how to spell a word, then u can't look up its meaning. Its not the dns servers responsibility to identify a typo, this is probably a feature for your browser instead - maybe Chrome will add it?
 
;)
JustinB said:
I understand fully what u r saying, but think of it as a dictionary, if u don't know how to spell a word, then u can't look up its meaning. Its not the dns servers responsibility to identify a typo, this is probably a feature for your browser instead - maybe Chrome will add it?
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Oh the irony of being lectured to about words by a "u r" language-murderer. But you're (that's the whole/actual word, learn it, use it) correct to say that it's not standard DNS responsibility to fix your typo. It's just a service OpenDNS offers is all, one that happens to be useful.

And you do NOT want to get into per-user/per-desktop stuffing around with multiple browsers when it's far more efficient to sort out in one place - at the router.
 
Please recreate the OpenDNS account, load the detail and continue.

No further issues should be experienced.

Thank you
 
Amida said:
Hi Shaun

Just out of interest sake why would a Service provider change their DNS IP addresses?
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The IP range that our DNS servers are on was before WBS got it's own ASN and as such does not allow us to have multiple upstream providers. The move is onto our own ASN and as such will put us in full control of the upstream paths.
 
Hi all.

Please remember to set your routers and PC's to automatically obtain the DNS address.

End of month is coming.

Thanks
 
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