BSNL DNS Settings

vivek_cbe · Half way there Joined: October 30 2005 Posts: 540

I have been having some strange issues of late with my BSNL broadband connection.

Most sites so not open, even the popular ones like Yahoo mail, gmail, google etc.

These sites show up with "hostgator" pages.

I think this has to do with some DNS settings. If anyone can shed some light on this it would be great.

I use the modem in a PPPOE mode. the modem is this "RT" something model. I forget the make. It is square shaped and creamy white in color.

pupudada · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

I use the following dns and have no problems at all

61.1.96.69
61.1.96.71

Dataone_User · Half way there Joined: February 20 2006 Posts: 515

I was also using these DNS since 2 years, but since a month or so they were not working. I had posted about it also here, And people had also posted the alternatives as reeDNS etc. BSNL had changed theDNS, please search for that post .
Make your pr DNS as 218.248.255.145 and see if it works.

loopguru · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

Few days ago i had the same problem i thought its some local level problem bcoz of which sites are not opening after a day i casually changed the DNS at all came to normal,i think BSNL is having some problem with there DNS.

vivek_cbe · Half way there Joined: October 30 2005 Posts: 540

for the record, i am a new BSNL user (as in a new connection) with IP address starting with 117.x.x.x

Would the DNS change for such an IP address?

cool_techie_tvm · Moderator Joined: August 25 2005 Posts: 1027

The BSNL DNS servers as displayed on my router are 218.248.240.24 and 218.248.240.135 Smile

pupudada · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

vivek_cbe wrote:

for the record, i am a new BSNL user (as in a new connection) with IP address starting with 117.x.x.x

Would the DNS change for such an IP address?

nope.. see my last post.. i am using the same dns as the one being used by others for 2 years and i too am on 117.xx.xx.xx

roadster · Good Enough Joined: June 08 2007 Posts: 1003

try opendns, instead of default dns.

Freedom · Half way there Joined: March 02 2007 Posts: 527

or use caching dns on your local machine ! treewalk for windows and bind/dnsmasq for linux Smile

vishi · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

The following DNS entries work very well :

61.1.96.69
61.1.96.71
218.248.240.208
218.248.255.135
218.248.255.145
218.248.255.193
218.248.255.161
218.248.240.24
218.248.240.135

and of course Open DNS IPs:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

surya_neo · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

I had the same problem last month. I was not able browse many of the sites. I have changed the dns servers to OpenDns servers and i have no problem till date.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

vivek_cbe · Half way there Joined: October 30 2005 Posts: 540

thanks to all of you for the suggestions.

after using open dns, i no longer face the hostgator errors !!

cheers
Vivek

sigma24 · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:56 am Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

use singapore telecom (singtel) dns 165.21.83.88 and 165.21.100.88 works fine for me

kapiln.ambiar · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: BSNL DNS Settings

pupudada wrote:

I use the following dns and have no problems at all

61.1.96.69
61.1.96.71

These wont work for me. It was working earlier but it stopped working a week ago

Dataone_User · Half way there Joined: February 20 2006 Posts: 515

kapiln.ambiar wrote:

pupudada wrote:

I use the following dns and have no problems at all

61.1.96.69
61.1.96.71

These wont work for me. It was working earlier but it stopped working a week ago

Yes right, the same thing happened to me few weeks back as these DNS stopped working for me also. I had also posted about it earlier in this forum. Now changed the DNS to
218.248.255.145
as suggested by some in this forum.