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davidbuckley
Citizen
Username: Davidbuckley
Post Number: 279
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 10:12 am: |     |
I have Comcast as my ISP and since last night we have very big weirdness...
I am having to post this by using remote software to go to my office computer because MOL won't load...NYTimes either won't load or won't load images, WSJ won't load and yet I can go out over the web and see some sites and also, obviously, access my work computer...
I am ignorant but think this may be something to do w/ Domain Name Servers or DNS...?
Any ideas folks?
Many thanks and surf well, all.
David Buckley |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5778
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 10:29 am: | |
Received a few "why is my site down?" calls this morning related to it. I think what happens is that Comcast's master DNS file gets damaged somehow or their router goes offline and they have to do a restore. Depending on different web sites' connections, some will appear online and others not.
Obviously, we're online. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 6155
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 10:46 am: | |
I had some problems, too. I was able to get to most sites, so it's more likely to be a DNS problem than a routing problem, but it could be either. It could also have been outside of comcast. |
Dave
Moderator
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5779
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 10:48 am: | |
The Internet can survive a nuclear attack, but not a corrupted file. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 2357
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 12:26 pm: | |
I've been having some problems, and also my landline phone is out. I use verizon for the phone but comcast for the cable modem.
I tried to load the verizon website and it won't come up, neither will msn.
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Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 598
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 12:39 pm: | |
Last night i noticed it down too when i would try to access some sites. Most notably:
pncbank
countrywide.com
I just spoke to my wife and she told me MOL was down (she is at home). I panicked, logged on, and nope, it wasn't down.
Something is up...it would seem. |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 691
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 2:28 pm: | |
I've found that for the past couple of weeks there have been problems.
I have a little app called "BwanaDik", it places a small ball in my menubar, when I stop getting a signal from my ISP (Comcast) it changes from green to red. I've been getting this a lot lately, but it only lasts for a few seconds at a time, it's enough to be annoying when you have to wait for a page to load, hit refresh, wait, etc.
Another thing I like about BwanaDik, is that when I click on the ball in the menubar, I get a dropdown menu that shows my IP addresses, both internal, and external.
If you have a Mac, you can get it here, http://www.jschilling.net/index.php
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Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1053
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - 3:58 pm: | |
Same here, Comcast. Seemed like it was some kind of DNS issue. However re-booting my cable modem seemed to help a little. Not sure why, maybe I got a new IP and default gateway? Didn't check before, so I'm not sure about that. |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 600
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - 7:16 am: | |
when i left for work this morning, it was down completely... |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 696
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - 10:37 am: | |
yeah, it went out last night around midnight here, had problems with the tv end too. |
kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 546
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - 2:12 pm: | |
Do you think it could be related to Homeland Security? It would never occur to me except for the tests going on all around us...... |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 609
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2005 - 7:37 am: | |
Its thursday, one day later, couple service calls...still no connection. they told us there was a problem in Union last night, but it was resolved. this was after they said there was no outage at all. what is going on with these people? |
kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 550
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2005 - 9:31 am: | |
It's Thursday and my Comcast connection seems to be working well. Notice how few posts on the MOL boards yesterday? The service outage was far and wide it seems. |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 612
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2005 - 9:58 pm: | |
Comcast is having a nationwide DNS problem. This accounts for the spotty service. The only way i can use the net is to have to hard code verizon's dns servers into my router! Hopefully they get this resolved.
I have been spending some time on the comcast message board...its an interesting place! |
kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 552
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 - 9:02 am: | |
Just after I posted yesterday morning my service was out almost all day. I spoke to my parents in Texas - and their Comcast internet was out also! "Nationwide DNS problems"....that is serious stuff. |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 228
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 - 8:53 pm: | |
I, too, had a Comcast problem but I shut down modem/router for FIVE minutes and rebooted PC this morning and viola! it was back...
's been very slooow though....
... I think I dislike Comcast high-speed almost as much as I disliked Verizon DSL. |
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