To help you make the most of your Telstra Internet Direct service, find information here on how to manage your routing using Border Gateway Protocol, manage DNS configurations, and other related technical issues.

News Services and News Browsers

Telstra Internet Direct offers news services: Network News Reader Protocol (NNRP) access to reader.news.telstra.net

Border Gateway Protocol

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a dynamic routing protocol that allows Autonomous Systems (differentiated by an AS number) to control how their networks are advertised to the rest of the Internet.

Domain Name Services

Telstra Internet Direct provides two resolvers or forwarding DNS servers, which are recursive, caching only nameservers.

Secondary Mail (MX) Server

Telstra Internet Direct provides a secondary mail server (secondary MX server) that can act as a back-up should your own primary mail server fail.

Technical Enquiries/Faults


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