BSNL's new DNS Servers: 61.0.1.1, 61.0.2.2, 61.0.3.3, 61.1.1.1

philip · May 21, 2020

@varkey Does that means their dns resolver is in kerala itself?

varkey · May 21, 2020

Yeah, it would automatically route you to the closest resolver. You wouldn't be able to get 1-2ms latency if the resolver is far away, so they probably have a node in each major city perhaps (Bangalore, Ernakulam, Pune etc)

philip · May 21, 2020

@varkey does this means the domain names is resolved much faster right ,so does it leads to any browsing speed improvements?

vishalrao · May 21, 2020

Yes, both the PING and DIG response times are very fast for 61.1.1.1 it is 1-2ms for each.

bugsbunny · May 21, 2020

I get DNS intercepted ads from BSNL, anyone face the same?

vishalrao · May 21, 2020

What do you mean by DNS intercepted? Yes, BSNL does inject ads on non-HTTPS website visits.

These ads usually take you to malware/phishing websites which BSNL is clueless or incompetent to know about.

humblefool · May 22, 2020

@vishalrao @varkey is there anything that we can do as a collective to stop Ad injection? Any letter or Email will work?

abbyck · May 22, 2020

@humblefool IFF did something like that. AFAIK no good actions were taken by BSNL

humblefool · May 22, 2020

We have to bring it to the media's attention may be if news websites cover it they might change?

philip · May 22, 2020

I changed my dns settings to auto and i am always getting dns resolvers in 218.248 series. In fact if i change it to the manual dns and set 8.8.8.8 and 8.8..4.4 then also my primary and secondary addresses will be in 218 series, the dns address should be of google right i ,are they forcing me to using their own . Can anybody help me?

supukabi · May 22, 2020

Adsl broadband customer can also enjoy the peering or it is only for ftth

vishalrao · May 22, 2020

humblefool said:
@vishalrao @varkey is there anything that we can do as a collective to stop Ad injection? Any letter or Email will work?

I guess each one of us can send emails to CMD email address and also file complaints on PGPortal but they may not listen - at most they may put each person individually on DND list to stop the ad injection like some other people on this forum have got done.

eriek_halenx · May 22, 2020

varkey said:
Yeah, it would automatically route you to the closest resolver. You wouldn't be able to get 1-2ms latency if the resolver is far away, so they probably have a node in each major city perhaps (Bangalore, Ernakulam, Pune etc)

Yup, one seems to be in kochi. I'm getting about 10 ping from here in tvm, for both the 61. and 218.248.112.116 ip

philip said:
In fact if i change it to the manual dns and set 8.8.8.8 and 8.8..4.4 then also my primary and secondary addresses will be in 218 series, the dns address should be of google right i ,are they forcing me to using their own . Can anybody help me?

@philip ,this is wrt the dns used for the ont only right? I had set google dns. But was also getting bsnl dns as shown below.

Is it important? As all our devices will take dns from dhcp.

supukabi said:
Adsl broadband customer can also enjoy the peering or it is only for ftth

I think it should work.

arunkadambanattu · May 22, 2020

Pinging to 61.0.2.2 getting 70ms latency. But in the case of 61.1.1.1 only have 2ms.

supukabi · May 22, 2020

So how to check if the peering is working or not?

BSNL's new DNS Servers: 61.0.1.1, 61.0.2.2, 61.0.3.3, 61.1.1.1

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