BSNL – Airtel DNS Problems

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Indian Broadband users especially BSNL and occasionally Airtel subscribers face slow internet / DNS related issues. This is due to the DNS Servers which are unresponsive or slow.

This can be solved by using an alternative DNS instead of the default :
Preferred DNS server – 61.1.96.69 (BSNL DNS Server IP)
Alternate DNS server – 61.1.96.71 (BSNL DNS Server IP)

One good alternative is to use OpenDNS - DNS IP Addresses as below :
Preferred DNS server – 208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS server – 208.67.220.220