Help Flaky DNS today!!

[Jupitus]

Hi guys,

anyone else having trouble with dodgy DNS today? I am in London on sky broadband for info and it's a bit of a mare!

 

[MYstIC G]

Hi guys,

anyone else having trouble with dodgy DNS today? I am in London on sky broadband for info and it's a bit of a mare!

Not on Sky but if DNS is an ongoing issue run pi hole locally on your LAN

 

[Raven]

Yes, on Sky, Midlands.

 

[Aoami]

Sky internet has been dodgy for a couple of months for me. Also London.

 

[Jupitus]

I've manually set my dns servers on my pc for now... reasonable workaround

 

[Embattle]

Nothing I've noticed today, had problems with Google DNS a few months ago just stuck it back to BT at the time.

 

[Moriath]

I've manually set my dns servers on my pc for now... reasonable workaround

Just change the ones in your router to 8.8.8.8 or something

 

[Jupitus]

Just change the ones in your router to 8.8.8.8 or something

Done locally as I am just on my pc for now - I may use that in my router when I remember what I change the password to

 

[Moriath]

Done locally as I am just on my pc for now - I may use that in my router when I remember what I change the password to

I set mine to that a long time ago.

 

[old.Osy]

Done locally as I am just on my pc for now - I may use that in my router when I remember what I change the password to

Personally, I prefer Cloudflare (1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1) over Google. Of course, there are other many free/public DNS providers

A List of Free and Public DNS Servers for 2025

A list of the best public and completely free DNS servers, plus why you might want to change them.

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