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Safeguard DNS service unreliable?
08-12-2018 2:41 PM
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For a month or so, have been having problems with the home network intermittently reporting no internet access and having just used the router's built-in diagnostics, see it's reporting DNS problems. I had set the router to use the safeguard servers (as specified here).
To confirm this, if use a command line ping of the primary Safeguard DNS server, I get...
> ping 213.120.234.42
Pinging 213.120.234.42 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 213.121.192.61: Destination net unreachable.
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.121.192.61: Destination net unreachable.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 213.120.234.42:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
The main DNS server does respond, so I could probably change the routers set up, but with younger ones in the house, I would prefer to use the safer option.
Re: Safeguard DNS service unreliable?
08-12-2018 3:07 PM
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From your post it appears you have a router that allows direct setting of DNS servers.
If you wish to change from the Safeguard servers but still would like some paraental control then have a look at OpenDNS and it's Family Shield https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/2010/06/23/introducing-familyshield-parental-controls/
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Re: Safeguard DNS service unreliable?
08-12-2018 5:51 PM
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Thanks. Will look into it.
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