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Homechoice: Optimising the connection

How can I improve DNS reliability?

Since HC have chosen to locate their two DNS servers slap-bang next to one another on the same network (for minimum resilience?) you could try setting yourself up as a local secondary nameserver to them. If you run a local copy of BIND (available for UNIX and Win32), you can achieve this by adding the following to named.conf: 
            zone "homechoice.co.uk" {
                    type slave;
                    file "s/homechoice.co.uk.bak";
                    masters {
                            10.16.124.20;           // dns1.homechoice.co.uk
                            10.16.124.22;           // dns2.homechoice.co.uk
                    };
            };
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Ed, Wed Feb 6 18:20:12 2002