Something fishy on the IS network

Gothan

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This is now the 3rd sunday in a row that it has happened.

Around 1 o'clock in the morning, my connection terminates (only on a sunday). Then I can connect again, but cannot open any website, all just fall flat with a "page cannot be displayed" error. Some local websites work, like eca.co.za (my mail provider), and of course this one, but nothing else.

When I try to connect with my openbrowse sofware, i just get:"No response from servers, please try again later"

This morning, my newsreaders all came back with a "cannot resolve hostname" errors.

Last sunday, I decided I have had enough so me the end user decided the phone IS, for some reason they were blown away by the fact that an end user would dare to defile their holy helpdesk lines.

And first trying to convinve me that there is no problem, after stating the valid fact that I can not connect to most sites, and from reading on myadsl that other users also battled, she finally threw in the towl, and corfirmed that something was wrong.

I then made the mortal mistake of asking...."Whats wrong?" This completely threw her qeue card response system out the window, and she put me through to some unknown, as I later put the phone down (one can only listen to an elevator musical version of celine dion for so long).

And this morning its happening again!!!

Is it still illegal, to drag people to the town square and Stone them to death, while they are mocked and catapulted by rotten fruit.

Maybe they should wear a huge scarlet "I" on their coats....for incompetant, ignorant and idiotic

(excuse the spelling, I am in a fit of rage, and don't really care about grammar right now)
 
Well currently I am using no DNS settings (thats why I can still send emails and browse). As soon as I enter the Openweb DNS settings : 196.40.108.27 and 196.40.108.28. I cannot use anything, my email connections fail, my newsreader fails, websites do not open
 
Before my ISP perceives that this thread is aimed at them and get some even weirder things. This thread is not directed at you openweb, you are an amazing ISP (although telephonic support over the weekend would be great), I am venting my frustration at IS here
 
I agree Openweb seem to get the raw end of the deal most of the time due to IS's complete inability to understand what customers need. Their connection has been pathetic of late, and Openweb try as much as they can to sort problems out thats not theirs to begin with.
 
The OpenWeb DNS server is currently having hardware trouble. We are working on that problem. If you're using the other IS name servers, then your problem shouldn't be DNS-related.
 
Currently everything is working fine, except openrouter, but I am patient, then news server is running fine (touch wood)
 
A few days ago I had a similar problem. Kept getting "FireFox can't find the page" or something like that. Yet if I type in an IP, then the site loads. So it is a DNS problem. I've tried every DNS server I know, including even a public DNS server I came across once. Then phoned WebAfrice support. After trying a few passable solutions the guy asked someone else there and came back that, can't remember who, is having problems with DNS server and that it will eventually come right.

Later that evening I was thinking, surely the whole of SA can't be off-line due to a DNS problem and decided to boot into Linux and whala, all working fine. So it was WINDOZE. Turned out that Netlimiter for some reason decided to block all DNS calls. Weird. Anyway, working 100% with Netlimiter disabled, but as soon as I enable it, I get the same problem. Suppose I'll have to reinstall Netlimiter again. Anyone have any suggested alternatives to Netlimiter?
 
I seem to be having problems with certain local sites including "www.openweb.co.za"

*sad face*

It's kinda frustrating, but at least they let us know somewhere else here on the forums
 
my IS intl is crawling this morning, after the total outage last night (in the middle of my work!)

Seems there is a bit of packet loss on the satellite link, 1 in every 10 gets dropped for some reason
 
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