-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The recent DNS fix forcing port randomization can also be a culprit. Matrix Mole 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 | 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 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 |>> 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 |>>> |>>> |>>> |>>> |>>> --------------------------------------------------- |>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - |>> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us |>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: |>>> |>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss |>> |>> |>> -- |>> James McPhee |>> jmcphe@gmail.com |>> |>> --------------------------------------------------- |>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - |>> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us |>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: |>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss |>> |> --------------------------------------------------- |> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us |> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: |> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss |> | --------------------------------------------------- | PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: | http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkikTZ4ACgkQIFnqWH4u/3OFPQCfYfh/ahJFU5+pZ0VaehSLAHtR QUoAnjs+nEV/eAS2h150Y5Fy1ALE70EZ =RMKX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss