Free DNS servers

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Doesn't your ISP provide DNS?

Ray at work

"Sudhakar Singh" <prakhar@hotpop.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I want ip address of some DNS servers available. As I can browse internet
> using proxy server but I can't ping\ftp\telnet machines using url like
>
> ping xxx.com will not work but if i will ping using ip it will work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sudhakar
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup (More info?)

Sudhakar Singh wrote:
> no

That sounds bizarre to me. Are you sure? What on earth do they expect you to
use?

Note - you can use pretty much any public DNS server's IP address, but
you're really supposed to use your ISP's. They are supposed to have them.
That said, 4.2.2.2 should work.

> "Ray Costanzo [MVP]" <my first name at lane 34 dot commercial> wrote
> in message news:%23kYvruP6EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Doesn't your ISP provide DNS?
>>
>> Ray at work
>>
>> "Sudhakar Singh" <prakhar@hotpop.com> wrote in message
>> newsY9r7zO6EHA.2608@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want ip address of some DNS servers available. As I can browse
>>> internet using proxy server but I can't ping\ftp\telnet machines
>>> using url like
>>>
>>> ping xxx.com will not work but if i will ping using ip it will work.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Sudhakar