At around 4 am, I restarted my router via the webgui. It didn't have internet connection before, neither there was internet after the reboot.

Hardcode open DNS ones or google, depending on how much youc are about some things, maybe even your own.

however, sometimes it has dns problems when the router or the modem restarts. we've got some contractors replacing our boiler today, so the house is a mess.

* DNS management

* Anycast DNS

In my case the reason I want geo location in my loadbalancer is because I have a video site which has visitors from EU and US, few from Asia. I need my loadbalancer to redirect the visitor to the corr

There are exceptions, you can load balance using GeoDNS / DNS Round Robin, anycast or DSR (although this offers you no benefits in this area) however rarely is this called "Load Balancing&

@SplitIce: I think you are mixing up load-balancing with reverse proxy. Ideally you want your load-balancer to completely hand over the connection to your webserver - either through DSR, DNS, or HTTP

@webcraft: Most DNS providers do Anycast - including OVH DNS and Rage4. As an example, Google has a DNS server at 8.8.8.8. No matter where you are in the world, you will get a response pretty fast, be

The end user would be required to still connect to the load balancer IP. It would not matter where you send the connection (to which server) the traffic must go through the load balancer (increased la

I see. So geo-based DNS seems to be good for me. Is it kinda this: https://code.google.com/p/bind-geoip/ ? Is the OVH geo-loc and anycast feature similar to rage4's one?

I got that from onrahost with a vps and whmcs license as I didn't want their cpanel reseller plans as cpanel gets in my way of doing things like running my own dns servers so I asked if they could pro

you would be better off using geo-based DNS services like rage4 dns, or even nsone as they have load balancing and shedding, all depends on what you really need and budget.

Their DNS servers have been timing out or returning servfails all day for me. Still are, just checked.

11.|-- google-public-dns-a.google.com 0.0% 10 7.3 7.3 7.1 7.5 0.1

Thanks. I'll try that. I think its also worthed mentioning that i'm using a SOCKS proxy, would it be better a VPN?? not sure about the dns queries if are going through the SSH tunnel

E-mail server configuration can be a real pain. I think its very useful that you've mentioned DNS and added an example configuration in your post, as this tends to confuse most people. One thing that

Could it be that they have a sub-domain that is not configured in your dns?

line)Oct 5 02:42:37 tr000 pppd[9555]: ms-dns xxx # [don't know how to print value]#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/pptpd-options)Oct 5 02:42:37 tr000 pppd[9555]: nodefaultroute#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/pptp

@jeromeza maybe you're behind a transparent DNS proxy?