Telkom DNS server timeouts

[wrathdelivery]

I'm on 8ta 3G in Cape Town and over the last few weeks access to the default name servers has become progressively worse to the point where I now am using Google's public DNS servers instead. Queries just time out most of the time to Telkom's name servers. At the time of posting they are currently available, but it's been a roller coaster for a while now

I've tried:

196.43.34.190 *8ta default 1
196.43.46.190 *8ta default 2


and all the ones at http://www.saix.net/cgi-bin/saix_dns.pl

Does anyone else have this problem, or know of a possible cause?

 

[SarelSeemonster]

Yeah, same here.

I'm so used to it by now that I can hover my mouse cursor over the exact spot where the "Retry" button will appear on the Firefox "Server Not Found" error page looong before the DNS request times out. Makes for a great party trick! Another 3 months or so of using 8ta and I should be able to do it blind folded as well.

Also see http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/512768-Google-co-za-slow-to-resolve-on-8ta

 

[wrathdelivery]

...and no replies from Telkom in any of these threads. Bad service. :/

 

[kilos]

...and no replies from Telkom in any of these threads. Bad service. :/

Their is no official Telkom rep on MyBB, just Telkom employees operating in their personal capacity

 

[wrathdelivery]

The contact us form on the official 8ta website crashes when you click submit. I give up.