DNS screwed?

[JacoD]

Yeah, yeah - I know they've been having problems yesterday and today with international links, however I can't even get to some local sites while some international ones work just fine!

Try getting to www.google.com [] I can't LIVE without my bloody Google! [xx(]

Initial investigation points to DNS issues... anyone else having problems?

C:\>nslookup
Default Server: ns4.infosat.net
Address: 66.18.68.1

> www.sentech.co.za
Server: ns4.infosat.net
Address: 66.18.68.1

Name: www.sentech.co.za
Address: 66.18.65.115

> www.google.com
Server: ns4.infosat.net
Address: 66.18.68.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to ns4.infosat.net timed-out
> www.google.com
Server: ns4.infosat.net
Address: 66.18.68.1

*** ns4.infosat.net can't find www.google.com: Server failed
>


C:\>ping www.google.com
Ping request could not find host www.google.com. Please check the name and try again.

Cheers

 

[Wireless2]

Usually when interntional is down i cant get myadsl for some reason ?

But now I can , but not one international since this morning

 

[loosecannon]

yip indeed they are not correctly configured ... as there international is farqued there dns was bound to stuff up ...

see http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4333 where i shot myself in my only foot putting faith in them ... ive gone back to useing IS/UUNET/SAIX

 

[loosecannon]

here is a further gotcha ... as there transparent proxies use there DNS you wont be able to get to local sites either once timed out...

oh the beautifull service ...

 

[hArTh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by loosecannon</i>
<br />here is a further gotcha ... as there transparent proxies use there DNS you wont be able to get to local sites either once timed out...

oh the beautifull service ...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Pathetic ... their ineptitude never ceases to amaze.

-Information anarchist-
www.sentechhatesfreespeech.org.za
I support:
www.telkom.fokkensuig.co.za
www.poopband.co.za
www.hellkom.co.za

 

[gripen]

Basically, .co.za doesnt mean hosted locally. the myadsl forum is hosted overseas. as is supersport.co.za which I was trying to get to. Pure local sites did work during the outage.

 

[loosecannon]

it does not matter where the site is if the DNS record expires [even if it is reachable] you will not reach it ... there are 13 root dns servers in the world all outside south africa that is why a ISP must ensure DNS redundancy at all times ... ive even used a isdn dialup to MWEB to keep the DNS running when we had a major out