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!]

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[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.