SS> what are some good public DNS servers that could use instead
 SS> of those from my ISP?

use Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's DNS stuff... he's the guy that's written
the OS/2 command line utilities (OS2CLU04), a 32bit cmd replacement and a
lot of other utils for OS/2... his DNS stuff is great and works a hell of a
lot better than BIND... in addition, you can run your own server for domain
name resolution on your internal machines if you desire and you /don't/
have to use those silly zone files like bind requires...

you can check his stuff out at
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Softwares/pre-release.html and
follow back thru the url to get to his homepage and root out more info if
you like...

i used to run bind and had to reboot quite often due to bind's allocating
of memory endlessly and not flushing things as needed and when they timed
out... JdeBP's stuff feeds over a dozen machines on my network and
cirrently only consumes some 400k of memory for the dns cache... as at
least one other has suggested, set up your own dns server and let it do the
lookups thru the root level servers and down to the server that contains
the actual info...

JdeBP's DNS servers are also not affected by "DNS poisoning"...
that's where a domain may feed you info about another domain that it has no
control over... this is one of the loopholes that allow for domain spoofing
where your machine looks up the address of one domain and is told by the
poison that it is here when it is really there...

for OS/2, JdeBP's DNS servers are the bee's knees, the cadillac, and the
best thing out there for this job... hands down, no questions asked... try
it for your self!

[note: i'm just a happy user and pretester of JdeBP's software... i am not
compensated in any way for my endorsements...]

)\/(ark