Globelines Broadband DSL DNS servers

November 15, 2008
Filed under: Geek

Think of your ISP’s DNS (Domain Name Service) servers as your Yellow Pages to the internet. They translate human-readable addresses (hostnames) into the numbers that computers understand (IP addresses).

For example, take a web page request for “www.google.com.” When you type www.google.com into your browser’s address bar, you are essentially telling your computer “Ok, here’s the site. Now get that page’s address for me. I want to ogle Erica Hill, Mary Snow and Heidi Collins pics.” Your computer will talk to your ISP’s DNS servers (computers too, of course) and throw that request to them. Your DNS server will reply with something like:
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 64.233.189.147 www.l.google.com has address 64.233.189.99 www.l.google.com has address 64.233.189.104
Those numbers are the computers where Google’s pages live (not the only ones though; Google is huge). Now your computer knows what to do.

Here they are:

Globelines DNS Servers:

202.52.163.6
202.52.163.7
202.52.162.39 (ns1.globeidc.com.ph)
202.52.162.40 (ns1.globeidc.com.ph)
202.52.167.70
202.52.167.71
203.127.225.10 (g-net.globe.com.ph)
203.127.225.11 (g-net1.globe.com.ph)
203.177.3.100 (theboss.globenet.com.ph)

Your ISP’s DNS servers may not always be the best ones to use. Some might suck, others might suck even more. There’s no iron-clad rule that says you have to use them, and only them. There are alternatives out there, one of the best being those offered for free use by OpenDNS.