Although you can use almost any DNS server, you want to use one close to you to speed things up. Try and find out who your ISP's ISP is. For example, Internet Exposure gets their service from VISI.com (as many many ISPs in the area do) Just do whois visi.com to find out what their name servers are. (Or whoever your ISP's ISP is) Jay On Monday 06 August 2001 10:10 pm, you wrote: > Ok here is one. My ISP some times allows me to connect to the internet but > thier DNS server is not working properly. Thus limiting me to only the > sites that are cached on my routers dns server. Real pain in the ars. Is > there a public server avalible that I can put the numbers into my search > Que on a temp basis till my ISP's DNS comes back on line? Kelly ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com Facts, apart from their relationships, are like labels on empty bottles. -- Sven Italla