DNS errors

[hong]

The really weird thing is that I'm on Bigpond, and I haven't had any trouble getting to the site at all. Well, except for the usual traffic-related hiccups.

 

[arwink]

Router Down: Australia cannot reach us ATM ...

I feel so...displaced

Like Hong, I can get on without to much trouble, but there's been a number of e-mails thrown about by various Brisbane based enworld readers who've tried from work and home accounts and come up with nothing.

edited a question out afte reading the news page

 

[hong]

I feel so...displaced

Well, they DID say Australia, not Austria.


Hong "kickin' it up in the old country" Ooi

 

[johnsemlak]

Thanks for the responses guys. I've passed it along. Hope it gets solved soon.

It appears that for the few people affected by this problem it is very frustrating indeed

 

[MerricB]

Woohoo!!!! I'm back!

Hopefully, it'll still be working tomorrow. (It's 2:33 AM here at the moment, here in Waubra).

I'm using my Ballarat/Netconnect account.

Tomorrow I'll give it a try with the work account...

Hope everyone else is back as well.

Cheers!

 

[johnsemlak]

Great Merric!

 

[s/LaSH]

It works for me, too (obviously). Hooray! An excuse not to do work again!

Hopefully this stays stable (I know from personal experience that DNS up/down status can fluctuate)...

 

[Psionicist]

As I said, if the DNS servers are down, use the IPs instead:

Forums: http://65.127.163.19/

Front page: http://65.127.163.19/news/

or edit the host files.

You can also setup your own DNS-server on an old computer with BIND: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

 

[MerricB]

This was more serious - I did use the IP codes, and I couldn't get through.

Cheers!

 

[Duncan Haldane]

Hi all,

I too have returned after a week's enforced absence.

I can confirm the problem was not with the DNS - pinging the IP address did not resolve.

I got some friends to do a traceroute, and compared it to my traceroute, and the interesting thing was we went along the same route - theirs succeeded, mine failed.

I did notice on their traceroute that the response time was much higher on the router that my isp failed to get through - so I wonder if it might have had something to do with "time to live" settings from my ISP.

Duncan