DNS on drugs?

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plugger123

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Is it my imagination or is Telkom's DNS'es on very strong medication? Every second site I load gives and error that indicates the domain name doesn't exist. A couple of more tries eventially loads the site. Anybody knows whats up?
 
reset your router and make it 'bridge' instead of 'route' in the config after adding your account name and password.

then make new (broadband) internet connections so that your pc's have to dial to the router, instead of being connected 24/7 i.e as soon as you log into windows.

i had the same problem :/
 
Bad advice, postmanpot, at least if you don't give some security tips along with it.

why don't you rather try determine where the problem is. Don't trust IE when it tells you something about dns. I've seen it complain about dns when I gave it an IP address.

ping a site - any site. Then ping another one, and another one. If those work the first time around for each site, you don't have a DNS problem. If they don't, learn how to use nslookup (or find dig for windows if that exists) and check domain names against the servers you suspect of being shaky.

If you get bad results, tell your router to use different dns servers.
 
Well I know of a few sites that are blocked on the Saix Backbone. One being the incredible usefull www.dnsstuff.com, it's even blocked from dialup access over saix. Now isn't that a laugh that Telkom would censor certain sites on the www.
 
koffiejunkie: i had that exact problem, with IE, FF and Opera. i experienced intermittent connections to the internet, often had to load a website twice for it to work etc.

what i explained was exactly what the telkom tech boy did, and his proceedings were accordingly relayed here.

plugger123: check your subnet masks too and other IP addresses..
 
I wouldn't trust a telkom techie with my computer security. If you had connection problems with the adsl modem in router mode, then the techie obviously didn't configure it properly.
 
the funky dns server issue again, I assume that there is a round-robin "messup" and 99% of the country gets auto assigned to the same dns server, which leads to overloading and dns errors.

primarydns: 196.25.255.34
secondarydns: 196.25.255.3
 
Also had a DNS problem last night. Phoned telkom and in they gave me DNS server IP's to specify. That worked the 2nd time around but since midnight last night my connection is dead (again).
 
koffiejunkie: it was actually my fault: when it got installed, i asked the techie to make the router so that as soon as a pc logs into windows it is connected.. he gave me the option of having to dial to the router to gain access as well, but i didn't know there would be a difference and the former sounded more preferable.
 
Thats why it is better to have it set in your router to autodiscover dns servers and then specify a few dns server addresses. I have not have problems yet.
 
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