DNS Problems

[Bri]

Hey,

I've got a diginet line from Telkom. This morning is was working fine and then suddenly stopped. From what I've worked out, I can still use ip's to get to webpages but not the normal addresses anymore.

I've reported the fault with telkom, but they seemed a little (very) clueless. Any ideas on possible solutions on my side without waiting for Telkom?

Have a Cisco router as well. I've reset everything as well, but no luck.

Thanks.

 

[NetSpike]

Do you get IP addresses resolved when you issue run the following command from Command Prompt:

nslookup www.google.com 196.25.255.3

If you do, set your machine's DNS to 196.25.255.3
If it does work, a better solution would be to set your router's DNS to 196.25.255.3 and all your client internal machines' DNS to your router's IP.

 

[Bri]

Thanks for the help. It's working again this morning so I'm assuming Telkom fixed something. Will this one as a backup as well.

 

[native]

Try open DNS

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

 

[Wihan_Louw]

im not totally sure what the problem is, but you might have a problem with your dns though.

 

[.geek]

im not totally sure what the problem is, but you might have a problem with your dns though.

That, my friend is quite possibly what this thread is all about.

 

[.geek]

Try open DNS

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Are these any better than the SAIX (assuming you're on SAIX) ones?

 

[native]

I use them over struBi and 99.9% of the time work fine for me.

 

[.geek]

Cool. I'll give them a try.