Twelves Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 DNS Outage last night for 90% of the world. As you can see, My ISP is totally broken and I cant see my page. (Although I know its up my friends on IRC can View it) Is there a way to Change my DNS in my Internet settings to a working one? But wow! Microsoft.com and Ebay and Google all reported that the names were not in use and off line. DNS 404 But it’s a DNS Server issue in Guru land? I have no Idea. My pages were gone also. Back now. Any one know what and why and how to fix this issue? I could not use WWW at all for 16 hours. (As you can see my ISP sucks) 3 122 ms 108 ms 117 ms perseus-fe-0-1-0.racsa.co.cr [196.40.31.130] 4 * * * Request timed out.) Tracing route to 12string.net [64.246.62.111] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 122 ms 117 ms 112 ms 196.40.52.1 2 125 ms 101 ms 111 ms 192.168.100.133 3 122 ms 108 ms 117 ms perseus-fe-0-1-0.racsa.co.cr [196.40.31.130] 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 173 ms 149 ms 160 ms So3-0-0.MIACR2.Miami.opentransit.net [193.251.12 8.58] 6 163 ms 166 ms 177 ms So2-0-0.ATLCR2.Atlanta.opentransit.net [193.251. 128.130] 7 174 ms 162 ms 165 ms So2-0-0.ATLCR1.Atlanta.opentransit.net [193.251. 128.126] Also, Who and why removed my account in the forums? I re registered. Strange. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 As you can see, My ISP is totally broken and I cant see my page Maybe you should find a new isp then. Quote
TCH-Dick Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 But it’s a DNS Server issue in Guru land? No, this was not an issue on our end. Our DNS has ZERO affect on any other site you visit that isnt hosted on TCH servers. It is an ISP problem, if you are on broadband, go into your TCP/IP settings and specify a different DNS IP. My ISP is pbol.net (very small company with tons of DNS issues) and I use EV1's DNS Quote
TCH-Dick Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Yup it is, glad i thought of it.. muahahahahahahahahaha *it was actually HG's idea, but dont tell anyone Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 I´m lost (but thats nothing new ), I think i missed what the idea is/was? Quote
TCH-Dick Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Also, Who and why removed my account in the forums? No one, it is still here. twelve Quote
vengavenga Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Didn't know about this, but it's very interesting as I've spent the day trying to fathom the infathomable for two clients ... Sites hosted with "old" host. DNS namerservers changed to point to TCH last weekend. Midweek - all OK, full propagated, all up and running with TCH. Last night, the domain names started heading back to the "old" host even though dns lookups showed the TCH nameservers. Seems impossible to me, all I could think of was that the name registrar has restored a backup of nameserver settings that was more than a week old, but I don't really know enough about how it all works. Could this be related? Ali. Quote
Virtual Imager Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 No one, it is still here. twelve It's here now, but if you look up the page at his first post in this thread it shows him as 'new to the nieghborhood' with just one post. I've noticed this a few other times when I try to get info about a member... Quote
vengavenga Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 doh .. should have read the thread more carefully before posting mine Still, anyone any ideas on what might have happened with the nameservers of my clients (I know it's not a TCH issue). Cheers, Ali. Quote
MikeJ Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 It's here now, but if you look up the page at his first post in this thread it shows him as 'new to the nieghborhood' with just one post. I've noticed this a few other times when I try to get info about a member... His first post in this thread is a different ID. Twelves plural, instead of twelve singular. Quote
Virtual Imager Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Well I guess that answers his question... and mine! You rock, BG Thumbs Up And Happy Valentine's Day everyone! :heart :hug: :heart Quote
MikeJ Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Well, not quite. He created Twelves because he apparantly couldn't log in as Twelve. Quote
Deverill Posted February 15, 2004 Posted February 15, 2004 DNS Outage last night for 90% of the world. Remember, just because your street was closed off for construction, the rest of the city is probably running fine. If your ISP is having severe problems then it is likely you can get to no sites at all, but the rest of the world can get around just fine to everyone but your ISP. If it's a small one then "the world may never know." (to quote an old Tootsie Pop commercial.) Quote
ThumpAZ Posted February 15, 2004 Posted February 15, 2004 I think Jim put it best... it was probably localized to your ISP, or even local/regional DNS servers for your ISP. To have something like this happen to more than even 10% of the world would take a major disruption in the SONET backbones or other main datapaths on which the net runs. And even most of those are self-healing. If your ISP told you that figure, then I would seriously consider a new ISP if available... or realize that the tech you spoke with was not very well educated about the Internet beyond the support scripts given to all 1st level techs. Either way, it would appear that your ISP had to restore DNS tables from a backup for whatever reason, and they are not backing them up often enough. DNS can be critical to businesses with a web presence and should be backed up daily or at least every few days... a week is too long especially if it is the only DNS server they have for that area. Single-server DNS is apparent in this case due to the loss of data. The secondary should have kicked in and taken over upon failure of the first. Glad to see you back online, though. Quote
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