Re: [Sheflug] blueyonder blues

[Matt Fairtlough <matt [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:02, Chris J wrote:
> 
> And Lo! The Great Prophet Matt Fairtlough uttered these words of wisdom:
> >
> > Has anyone had any problems with telewest/blueyonder cable access?  They
> > seem to have changed their dn server addresses for cable users, without
> > telling anyone.
> 
> http://help.blueyonder.co.uk/html/connected/server.shtml
> 
> Contains all the information you need... :)

but not the ip addresses of the domain name servers (ones quoted are for
dial up although they appear to work fine for broadband).

> > Their determination to drive away any non PC/Mac users and to discourage
> > any Mac users seems quite strong.
> 
> It's not so much that -- can you imagine your general tech support person 
> trying to support Linux, given the number of distributions, configurations, 
> variations and setups that exist...it's bad enough with the number of 
> Windows variations.

no, not your general support person and not for arbitrary enquiries. 
But supporting hardware firewall users could be done better I believe,
there could be more online information. A linux firewall should be more
secure than a windows one, especially just a software solution. 
Actually they also say they don't support home networks at all.
 
> As for DNS, I avoid the problem by running BIND locally... :-)

hmm, I thought about that but I don't think I'm in your league.

Matt.

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