Our ISP's DNS servers are unreliable at times. I am looking for reliable, public DNS servers as a replacement.
I know of OpenDNS but do not like the fact that it hijacks Google lookups and proxies its services. Preferably the DNS servers are free, reliable, and officially open to the public.
Best Answer
I'd recommend running your own DNS server on your LAN, using "root hints" to provide lookup functionality for Internet names. That'll also let you create and use names for your various on-LAN resources, as an added feature.
You don't mention what operating systems you're using, but getting a caching name server running under most Linux distros and Windows versions is pretty easy.