Sky Ireland Broadband - default DNS servers

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I was just wondering does anyone have the default DNS servers IP addresses for Sky Broadband in Ireland? I'm using a third party router and would like to restore the DNS servers. 

My connection is on "Eircom_VDSL". I've tried eir(com)'s IP addresses, but they don't work. 

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Anonymous 

Most 3rd party routers allow you to tick "obtain automatically from isp" which detects the dns servers.

In the uk they are 

Primary DNS        90.207.238.97

Secondary DNS  90.207.238.99

But i can't find anything for sky ireland

[Anonymous]

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@cookiemonsteruk wrote:

@Anonymous 

Most 3rd party routers allow you to tick "obtain automatically from isp" which detects the dns servers.

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Unfortunately, when I try to get the DNS automatically, it doesn't work. I have to use Google's. 

[Anonymous]

So I don't know why I didn't try this before, but I plugged in my old Sky Q router and connected it.

The DNS servers I got were:
192.111.39.121
192.111.39.212

They work on the third party router. 

I think the third party router may have been using Eircom's old ones.

[Chrisee]

@Anonymous unless you need to use a service like Sky's Broadband Shield (Broadband Buddy requires a Sky hub to work AFAIK) there is no gain in using Sky's DNS and a possible downside as individual members of the large number of servers  used to deliver DNS services used can become very slow..

Personally I find the Google public DNS quick and reliable.