Were the homelanders fucking with the internets last night?

[lonestarnot]

Nation wide outage of DNS server w/o explanation. Anyone know?

[snappyturtle]

1. What happened? When? I was on and off the net last night but I didn't notice anything. Thanks. nt

[lonestarnot]

2. Everything blew. Everything down no access zilch at approximately 9:30 p.m. MST.

[snappyturtle]

3. Wow! I had my laptop on but was away from it! Let's see what others say. nt

[snooper2]

4. Do you know how many different people and companies out there run DNS servers?

:rofl:

Somebody clogged up the tubes :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lonestarnot]

7. I have no fucking clue.

I don't even know what a DNS server is, but it was apparently a fucking fiasco for cox cable last night.

[snooper2]

10. Cox is probably the single worst telecom provider in the country

Cox is the Huyndai of the telecom world



FYI, Saying "Nationwide DNS Server Outage" is like saying- "Nationwide traffic light outage" :P

[lonestarnot]

20. I see. What can one do about that? DSL the only other option?

[eShirl]

33. you can switch to another, or add an alternate, dns server for your computer to look up internets on

(that was me speaking Technical, by the way)

here's one of at least two that I use... I set it up a few years ago so my aging brain is fuzzy on the how-to details
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

[csziggy]

34. You can find what alternatives may be available to you

Go to DSLReports and use their Find A Broadband Service: http://www.dslreports.com/search

I haven't used it but I do check the user reviews for services around here when I am unhappy with my service.

I did notice throughput was kind of slow last night. But they just changed us over Monday to a new package (10Mbps DSL and Prism TV) and there have been a few glitches.

[eShirl]

35. if it's the dns service that's the problem, switching isp's to solve it is overkill

IMHO (note: I've certainly been wrong before...)

[csziggy]

41. I think (bbut I could be wrong) that different services use different DNS

Servers.

My ISP used to reboot their system every night at midnight. So every night just after midnight, I had to reboot the DSL modem, then re-establish a connection to whatever site I had been on. PITA R US!

I complained every time it really pissed me off and eventually they changed their reboot time to something like 4 AM local time.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

37. We've had them for over a decade.

We've always had great service and very few outages. Maybe it depends on where you are?

[snooper2]

40. No, they are pretty clueless...

I've had to work with their "senior" engineers before on the VoIP side and it was pretty pathetic. Once I was explaining that we had a customer on our network who had customers calling them on COX. Long story short my customer's customers were getting "number out of service" treatment (when what was really going on was all trunks were busy). I asked them why are they playing wrong treatments- (Oh, we don't know, we just picked different ones :eyes: )

[eShirl]

5. didn't notice a thing

[lonestarnot]

8. Maine?

[eShirl]

32. Yes.

[maddezmom]

6. didn't have any problems here

:shrug:

[lonestarnot]

9. Tejas?

[NNN0LHI]

11. I just checked my APC data and the power went out for 58 minutes around the same time here

I was sleeping so I didn't notice anything.

Don

[lonestarnot]

15. Wow. Power too? Interesting.

[NNN0LHI]

21. We are at the end of the line here next to the Indiana boarder so it goes out a lot

Often enough that we have a back-up generator. Usually the first to lose power and the last to get it back up again. :(

Don

[lonestarnot]

22. Damn that sucks!

[Brickbat]

12. No problems here.

I'm guessing the answer to your question would be no. :shrug:

[Rebubula]

13. The Internet

It is not run by one person\company and there are 10s of THOUSANDS of DNS servers in the country - and 100s of thousands more around the world.

Probably just a glitch at a single Internet provider.

Nothing to get all tinfoil-hatty about. My Internet in Maryland never had any problems - I was surfing the web and watching NetFlix streaming all evening.

[lonestarnot]

16. Children had access to gaming, so world did not end. :)

[deaniac21]

14. Get a clue. My network (8 states, 5500 users) didn't even hiccup.

[lonestarnot]

18. I am trying to get a fucking clue ok. That is why I fucking asked. I haven't had much sleep either

so do not fuck with me! :evilgrin:

[Safetykitten]

17. Cox was out for hours. The phone line to them overloaded.

[lonestarnot]

19. Yes. And they do not have an explanation as of 3 a.m. this morning.

[snooper2]

23. You can't "overload" a phone line, saying it was "loaded" would be a little more accurate

:P

Even better, just use the term "all circuits busy" as you will hear as a treatment from time to time :)

[lonestarnot]

24. Or a quicker sounding busy tone same difference.

loaded overloaded either way not getting a real answer.

[snooper2]

26. That's called fast busy

:)

[Safetykitten]

29. Thanks Alexander.

[lonestarnot]

30. Graham Bell!

:evilgrin:

[snooper2]

36. Any Time!!!

:)

Any other questions I'm doing this show all week :)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

38. Must have been regional.

I have Cox and my husband was on World of Warcraft until after midnight with no problems. :shrug:
Cox has occasionally gone out. I'm not sure why it would be homeland security or whatever. Outages happen.

[brooklynite]

25. Here's an answer...no

I had no problems last night with power or bandwidth.

[MuseRider]

27. Would never notice that here

because I am in Kansas (1920?) and in the boonies to boot with a wireless provider that is out lots of times lots of days.

Living in the beginning of the last century, trying to be current :)

Looks like you are back up and OK. :hi:

[NeedleCast]

28. I Don't Think The Internet Works How You Think It Works

The answer to your first question is No.

[AsahinaKimi]

31. I was on IMVU last night when the entire system went down

Someone said they were having troubles for the last couple of days. I don't know if what you said is related. I guess it could be. That would be scary if the entire net went out..

[elleng]

39. Everything went down here last night/this morning, after midnight;

TV + Internet. Thought it was Comcast.

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. And in other news

yup I called it...and water is wet.

Concerted attacks on twitter and facebook are coming... mark your calendars