That question doesn’t really make sense. They act as authoritative servers for entries that you tell them to be authoritative for, and as caching resolvers for everything else. You should read up on how DNS works if you’re going to charge people money for providing Internet services.
I have been. and i intend to do some more.
I semi under stand it.
I get that when pinging it it only uses DNS to find the websites IP.
I know this is not really a propper diagnostic. but why would skype be working but not IE?
IE keeps trying to dial a connection. but i can phone my friend on skype. Is that a NAT firewall rule or what?
Try to reconfigure the NS2 in bridge mode, just leave some IP for management.
Then configure the router in a normal way - with 2 WAN IPs and 1 internal subnet. Then add both ISPs DNS servers AND 8.8.8.8 to Mikrotiks DNS. Masquerade and other stuff (like static DHCP leases). And forget the PPPoE on internal network.
Simple setup, nothing special
Do you have NAT rules specific to the ports Skype uses? If not, how would NAT come into it?
Again, if your cicrcuits drops arbitrarily call your provider.
Ok cool i have done that.
i unclicked use peer dns and then i created a opendns accoutn and put in those ips into the dns and it seems to be workign ok now.
So now i know if it drops to phone telkom.’
Thanks allot guys/