Aaaargh!

[blufive]

My DNS is currently shot to ribbons, and I can't see most of the web. it took about 10 tries over half an hour to get through to LJ.

Th firewall is currently showing a tide of virus-spew at about 100-per-hour, which might be something to do with it.

[edit: all back up to speed within a couple of hours. But it WAS the two hours of the day when I'm most likely to be using the net. Boo! Hiss!]

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I wonder ... are you connected via NTL cable? It's lousy for me too.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Yep, ntl is buggered:

[http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/lookup/default.asp]

DNS outage - affecting all packages
ntl:home internet customers on all packages may currently experience difficulties using the service due to a DNS server outage.

This is likely to affect all internet services (browsing, email, FTP) for customers in some regions, and access to certain websites and servers in other regions.

Our engineers are aware of this issue and are working to resolve it as soon as possible.


Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Just told the laptop to use 194.72.6.57 and 194.73.82.242 instead of whatever DHCP tells it.
All OK now.

(those are BT name servers)

[blufive.livejournal.com]

Ta for the link.

I wonder sometimes, whether the way I signed up and got connected - by phone, by myself, without any software from them - has resulted in my current state of complete ignorance about any kind of support/status pages like that one.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Maybe... but nobody ever told me it was there, I searched and found it. I think I found it via a dejagoogle post.

[blufive.livejournal.com]

Ah, just me being paranoid then :)

[blufive.livejournal.com]

Yep, NTL.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Amusingly my housemates were surprised at how good NTL was being a couple of days ago. This might be the last straw causing us to go with a different broadband provider - on the condition that they pay their share.

I *may* be seeing a better service than you guys since I run a DNS caching server in my firewall. This means that I hopefully wont see any DNS outage so long as it remains shorter than the usual time between DNS updates.... Hmmmm.

Alex

[blufive.livejournal.com]

NTL has generally been good for me. I think this was only about my third major outage in over 2 years since I signed up.

But what's really freaky is that, while I (on this machine) was completely lacking DNS, Cal (on a machine in the next room, ICS'd through this one) was surfing the web quite happily. We've got a phantom DNS cache somewhere, obviously.