Internet connectivity problem

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
The ones I'd hardcoded into my network properties (as originally
> instructed by the ISP) and had been using for years had changed. The phone
> company, for reasons of its own, had suddenly started using new DNS
> addresses -- and weird-looking ones too, that I at first thought were fake:
> 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Not Fake. Root servers. Perfectly valid. Another one I use for testing
is 4.2.2.2.

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W. Scott Lockwood III
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