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STOP HIJACKING MY DNS
I've opted out of the Enhanced Error Results Service [1] but I STILL get redirected to the stupid page every time I mistype a URL. Not only is this "Enhanced Error Results Service" completely useless, but it's also an invasion of privacy because in order to redirect me to such a page you must be accessing each and every HTTP request I make over the web, checking if it succeeds, and then determining if I should be redirected to a page or your crappy search service. I pay you to give me internet access, not to monitor my internet activity.
Please please PLEASE turn this service off.
[1]: http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=%7b4fa5b640-6447-11df-ccef-000000000000%7d
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Tecknowhelp
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I suggest using a 3rd party DNS. Not only does it negate advertisement, but some allow you to blacklists certain domains and other user controls. Try name bench to see what alternatives work best for you. If you set the DNS as static in the router, you don't have to configure each individual computer on your network. See here for more info. This is specifically important for IPv6 traffic.
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MartinFSSr
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Hi, Tec--
I've been plagued by DNS issues for months with no fixes. Loooong ""looking up xxx" status at the bottom of the browser, and frequent timeouts ("Can't find server--did you spell it correctly???" or similar.) I got DNSBench and tried various things but the bottom line was that DNSBench was reporting that my recommended Cox DNS servers were as fast or faster than Google, or others.
I have to say I am no expert on DHS but it's apparent that there are several levels of caching. For example, when I use ipconfig to check my Windows DNS cache, it has lots of strange stuff in it but NOT basic stuff I'd expect like the cox pop server (!!?) and google.com. Then I understand my browser (I use Chrome and Firefox) may be cacheing addresses. And the Cox support techs have cleared some cache at their end I can't even see (which helped for a short time, but then back to abnormal.) So, I guess it's complicated.
And another thing: i ran some traceroutes from my gateway/modem (which had this on their on their Diagnostics menu.) All the traceroutes, both to ip addresses and site names, and both to Internet Web sites and to the Cox DNS server addresses, reported MANY HOPS (10-15) and most of them ended with TRACE FAILED.
So I am totally flummoxed, and getting close to where the other fellow is: change ISPs . . .
Any ideas??
Thanks,
Martin
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Jerry
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This is probably inviting a "Stop hijacking my thread" from the OP but oh well. I believe Teck is taking some much deserved time off.
The difference in time for the Google DNS and the Cox DNS is milliseconds. Not enough to notice and even so if it cures the issue well worth it.
After you change your DNS settings (do it in the router's interface so you don't have to do it on every device) I suggest you open a command prompt with administrator privileges (right click on command prompt and select "run as administrator") then type in these commands exactly as shown or copy and paste and press enter after each one.
netsh int ip reset
It will say "OK - Must restart for settings to take effect. Don't do that yet. Type in:
ipconfig /flushdns
It will say "successfully flushed" or something like that.
Now do a restart. You will have cleaned out any bad information your system was using to traverse the internet. It's like getting a brand new Thomas Brother's guide and tossing the one from 1998. Dated myself there.
Anyway, should be good to go and eliminate the lag. I do it whenever I sense any slowdown and I'm lightening fast once again. It also gets back a dropped ipv6 connection where the lag comes when your system has to redirect to ipv4 after the ipv6 times out.
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