No international bandwidth on ADSL

[Nortic]

my mweb account has been working for awhile since I rebooted my router

 

[Peder]

Open DNS only solves certain sites... i cannot get into facebook...

And some banners on mybb are showing gateway timeout

 

[bekdik]

You can try adding the following additional dns IP's to those already mentioned:

196.43.3.206
196.43.50.190
196.25.1.1

looks like this cookpot manages to resolve!

 

[pace101]

same here... some sites work ...most , like google and facebook have the gatewat timeout error

 

[Gtx Gaming]

lol telkom dns servers is down allot of guys cant acces inter sites,thinking they cap has not refreshed,some also say the satelite link is down not sure,mtn and vodacom dns servers stilll run

 

[galdor]

same here... some sites work ...most , like google and facebook have the gatewat timeout error

I don't use Facebook but I have no problems accessing google since changing to OpenDNS

 

[dinofizz]

Hello

I woke up this morning to find myself in the midst of this crisis, the Black Wednesday ADSL Recession. So I thought I'd check out MYBB knowing some clever people would have interesting things to say about it.

Excuse my n00bness, but can anyone spare a few lines on this OpenDNS thing, and how this (supposedly) works as opposed to the SAIX DNS. I have a vague understanding of DNS - something about assigning names to IPs??

OK after writing this it seems intl is back, so no more worries. But I'm still curious about this OpenDNS if anyone would be kind enough to elaborate?

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[Elfreako]

Are there any proxy settings I can use? Dont have the option of changing the companies DNS settings

 

[Nortic]

I noticed that if i change the http to https it also helps e.g. https://www.gmail.com

 

[Geoff Ogden]

Looks like they're back up now - just got Google.

 

[Geoff Ogden]

and Google Earth.

 

[buriedUnderGround]

Looks like they're back up now - just got Google.

Yip. Facebook and all other sites that weren't accessible earlier are now fine. YAY!

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

Seems to work again in the cape area ( somerset west) "Packing away war suit"

 

[nic777]

Looks like its working here as well

 

[PostmanPot]

Yip back up.

 

[Kalvaer]

Excuse my n00bness, but can anyone spare a few lines on this OpenDNS thing, and how this (supposedly) works as opposed to the SAIX DNS. I have a vague understanding of DNS - something about assigning names to IPs??

You pretty much explained it with the assigning names part Easiest way I can think of explaining it as follows.

Think of the IP address as a postal address for every single website (and many more things on the internet). Remembering these numbers for every website though would be very hard and impractical for all but the mathematical super genius type people.

To make it easier, friendly sounding names are assigned. To find a website though, your browser (or program) sends the DNS server a query, asking it what the IP address is for a specific name you have typed in. The DNS server will check its list it has, and either point you towards another DNS server that has the list, or send you back the address right away. Your browser will then go to that "postal address"

If SAIX's DNS is not working, then you cant get the IP address, so you get timeouts instead. Switching the DNS server to a server that is working, can sometimes bypass the situtaion

 

[dinofizz]

If SAIX's DNS is not working, then you cant get the IP address, so you get timeouts instead. Switching the DNS server to a server that is working, can sometimes bypass the situtaion

Thank you Kalvaer Now that intl is back I supplemented your explanation with some reading on DNS and OpenDNS on wikipedia as well. Much clearer now.

 

[Barfish88]

well i am happy that you all are happy, but mine is still up to ****

 

[Kalvaer]

Which ISP? Have you tried to change the DNS servers? Is it any website specifically?