Comcast Customers Get Short Ended Again
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BroadbandReports.com is reporting that many Comcast customers were reporting significant problems with their DNS this weekend and were unable to reach many web sites.
This is at least the second time that Comcast has had significant DNS problems and Comcast customers had to resort to using other ISP’s DNS servers in order to view web pages.
One solution for these DNS problems is to use OpenDNS.
Tags: dns, dns servers, dns server
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Bryan Price
June 12th, 2007
at 10:02pm
The only troubles that I saw that were going on this weekend where some MySpace issues which were more server issues than actually getting to MySpace.
Now that I’ve RTFA, I have no clue.
And I never saw the first issue when I was using hard coded DNS servers instead of the list from DHCP (I had static IPs turned on due to an issue with the router I was using back then). Blissfully unaware. They were Comcast servers (that they were using to service my area way back when), and there probably weren’t many users at all using those servers ns8.attbi.com and ns9.attbi.com. Which still exist BTW. They just aren’t reachable anymore - odd. ns1 and ns6 are the only ones still pingable. And I hit those two with nslookup and they aren’t DNS servers anymore!