Comcast DNS problems again

Off-topic
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This is just an FYI for anyone who is on Comcast (like me). Comcast is having nationwide DNS problems again.

Unfortunately, if you’re on Comcast right now you are probably unable to even get to Unicyclist.com right now to read this. :roll_eyes:

There is a thread about the problem over at Broadband Reports: [DNS] We have another issue tonight…. They explain the fix. The fix is to manually add an additional DNS server to your DNS server list. I’m currently using one of the ORSC Public DNS servers as my secondary DNS server till Comcast can get its act together. Second time in a week that Comcast has had their nationwide DNS servers go down.

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I’m on Comcast… but I’m using my old DSL DNS servers…
cuz, I don’t know the Comcast ones :smiley:

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The Comcast DNS servers are
68.87.66.196
68.87.64.196

But I wouldn’t recommend switching to them right now. :slight_smile:

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Cool, I’m not alone… it happened last week too, didn’t it.

I got home from unicycling and had that slight panic of my sites being down… then found out it was not just mine. :slight_smile:

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Yup. Comcast had the same/similar DNS problem about a week ago. The network was working, but no DNS.

I noticed the problem tonight when I tried to post a message. The DNS servers went down while I was typing a reply. I went to post and Unicyclist.com was gone. Then I noticed that Google was gone too.

Broadband Reports has a thread about last weeks outage too. Someone from Comcast jumped in and said it wouldn’t happen again. He said they fixed the problem with the DNS servers. Seems he spoke too soon.

If your on Comcast it would be a good idea to add a secondary or third DNS server to use for when the Comcast DNS servers go down again. The Comcast DNS servers have never been reliable. I regularly get errors trying to get to Unicyclist.com while reading the forum. I’ll try to read a thread and the browser can’t find Unicyclist.com. I hit refresh and Unicyclist.com is back. Comcast’s DNS servers have never been reliable.

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Well there’s plenty unprotected resolvers you could use to bypass comcast’s problem.
Happy I’m not a heldesk-employee who need to answer questions like “the internets are broken”.
But I have a sligthly off-topic questions about the authoritive nameservers of

Maybe I’m just wasting my time on things that are none of my business, but

srv21# dig @NS1.THEPLANET.COM unicyclist.com soa

should:
unicyclist.com. 900 IN SOA unicyclist.com. support.unicyclist.com. 2005012603 900 900 1209600 900
not be:
unicyclist.com. 1200 IN SOA ns1.theplanet.com. mail.gilby.com. 2005012603 1200 900 1209600 900
as there is no nameserver named unicyclist.com?

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I bookmark the IP addresses of all my favorite sites instead of the domain names. No silly waiting for DNS resolutions…just instant unicyclist.com-age. :smiley:

Man im an addict