On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 KRFinch@dstsystems.com wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone out there in TV land had the addresses of a
> couple of public DNS servers in KC.  Sometimes my connection gets a
> little flaky because of name resolution, and having links to extra DNS
> servers in the list smooths things out sometimes.

The most popular public servers are the root servers.  My default install
of bind allowed only localhost access.  Latency for a lookup may be around 
a few hundred milliseconds.  Repeated lookups are nanoseconds as they are 
cached.

      Homepage:    http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9-beta.html
      Description: BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain - Name Server

two commands to install and run this from gentoo:

emerge bind
/etc/init.d/named start