Internet connectivity problem

[staticsafe]

On 2/25/2013 16:26, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not quite - https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
Root servers - http://www.root-servers.org/

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