Tim: >> However, there are some ISPs which set up filtering that will >> prevent you from resolving names yourselves (perhaps they want to >> enforce their censoring?). Kenneth Porter: > If this is restricted to specific domains, use "stub" domains in your > named.conf to selectively forward those domains to the ISP servers. In which case, you still wouldn't be able to resolve what they blocked... Anyway, when an ISP decides to prevent users from the user running their own DNS server, it's usually done by them preventing you from making outgoing connections on the ported used for DNS queries. Either blocking it, or forcing you through their own systems (like transparent proxying). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.