DNS wierdness and cox communications

[Dan Lund]

I find just changing DNS to something non-Cox helps tremendously.
I use 207.172.3.8 and 207.172.3.9 (RCN's dns, an old employer of mine)

Thanks,
Dan Lund
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Matrix Mole <matrixm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say it's guaranteed cox. I'm having exact same problems and cox is
> the only provider involved. I've a fried who lives about two streets
> over from me, again having the same problems. Unfortunately, I've
> called cox and they basically are telling me it's my computer (all 7
> of them in my house) that are at fault, cause nothing on their network
> could cause that behavior. When I mentioned to them that others I've
> heard of were having these problems they were like "Oh, if that were
> the case we'd have a lot more calls, and we don't" then they dismissed
> me. I'm calling back tomorrow and going to talk to a manager and see
> if maybe I can get someone to accept they've screwed something up in
> their network and need to fix it.
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Technomage Hawke
> <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yeah... could be just my connection..... in diverse places on cox (and
>> from what I see, also on qwest). someone suggested a possible routing
>> issue as well (more than likely the case).
>>
>> one other possible thought, the root DNS servers may not be accepting
>> connections from jus "anybody".
>>
>> ASU's DNS servers are actually located within the qwest ip space.
>>
>> I have tried other DNS servers with variable results. I might have to
>> break out wireshark and see if I am getting connection resets on that
>> port. and run some tests with my clients over this week.
>>
>> anyway, I don't have enough available info to call it as a cox or a
>> qwest specific issue.
>>
>>
>> On 8/10/08, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you're experiencing issues, then set up a job to query Cox and Qwest's
>>> and whoever's DNS servers at the same time and log it.  See if you're seeing
>>> a trend.  It could just be your connection.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 23:39 -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote:
>>> > > Over the last few weeks, I have noticed an increasing number of
>>> > > customer calls about network outages. Now on the surface, this might
>>> > > not seem all that relevant, However, these issues are not just windows
>>> > > centric.
>>> > >
>>> > > I have discovered a pattern to the outage problems I have been
>>> > > troubleshooting. it seems that cox is filtering dns traffic to anyone
>>> > > outside their own ip space. any attempt to use a DNS root server or
>>> > > even the ASUdns servers results in many pages not being resolved. as
>>> > > soon as I set for the cox dns servers, all seems to work again.
>>> > >
>>> > > anyone else noticing this "filtering" on cox's part?
>>> > ----
>>> > no - it makes no sense, you can always test your theory out at any time
>>> > you want by running commands such as dig and host and if you really
>>> > care, you could run your own caching dns server which would obviously
>>> > need to access other dns servers to be worthwhile.
>>> >
>>> > Craig
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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