DNS Problems
Gary Nichols
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 15 May 2002 21:14:24 -0700
I have done something similar with Cox@home. After my service was installed
here in Chandler, it went down at least once every 2 weeks for a few hours.
After some troubleshooting I found that their nameservers were toast.
I configured my internal DHCP server to hand out my internal nameserver as
the primary nameserver (Sun Sparc5/75 running OpenBSD - oh yeah!) and WALAH -
not a problem since. Not even ONE.
I had VDSL in Deer Valley for two years and never had a single problem. Sorry
to hear that Anthem sucks - the service in DV was the best I've ever had from
an ISP. I think I had one outage, but that was when I accidentally
disconnected my cable box. d'oh
He can fix his problems by using an internal nameserver (best option if
possible) or using other nameservers as Matt pointed out. If he doesn't
want dhcpcd wiping his changes, make /etc/resolv.conf immutable.
Gary
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 07:24 pm, George Toft wrote:
> That won't do any good. Their DHCP servers (in Anthem) return three IP's:
> a 192.168.x.x address, which routes but does not respond, plus the other
> two mentioned below. Last September (or so), the first DNS failed. Then
> the second one failed. I confirmed this with ethereal. I called them,
> and the CSR politely took my complaint. Later that day, a supervisor
> called me back to explain failover - if the first one fails, it will
> roll over to the second name server. "Yes," I said, "but your second name
> server has failed also." It was down for over four days. I set up my old
> Sparc box (Solaris 7 - see, I use UNIX as well as Unix) as a DNS and got
> back to work. About once per week I would check on the name servers, and
> the primary NEVER CAME BACK UP!!! (Never being defined as until
> Christmas).
>
> There's a reason they lost their exclusive contract in Anthem. Something
> about poor QoS maybe? You can view my notes here:
> http://georgetoft.com/qwest
>
> If you read my notes, you will see the futility in dealing with them.
>
> George
>
> Matt Alexander wrote:
> > Try changing the nameserver entries to different DNS servers, such as:
> >
> > nameserver 12.127.16.68
> > nameserver 12.127.17.72
> >
> > That should solve your problem. Then give Qwest a nasty phone call and
> > tell them to fix their name servers and to also close some of those extra
> > ports as well. Sheesh. Both of their servers are completely
> > unresponsive to me when doing lookups.
> > ~M
> >
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Frank Mandato wrote:
> > > Here is the resolv.conf the way it set up
> > >
> > >
> > > domain qwest.net
> > > nameserver 206.80.192.1
> > > nameserver 204.147.80.81
> > > search qwest.net
> > >
> > > Matt Alexander wrote:
> > > > What does /etc/resolv.conf say?
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Frank Mandato wrote:
> > > > > I can not access any website with their FQDN, however I have no
> > > > > problem getting anywhere when I use the numeric IP addresses.
> > > > >
> > > > > I had to change my server name to its numeric IP address in order
> > > > > to send or receive mail.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am not running any DNS servers on my machine, sometimes I can
> > > > > use domain names, sometimes I can't. I am with qwest ( not much
> > > > > longer ) and I have a domain parked at zoneedit.com that I use on
> > > > > this machine as a test bed.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no problems pinging IP addresses, but can't ping domain
> > > > > names.
> > > > >
> > > > > My distro is RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.9 and I am using a Netgear NIC.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone have any ideas what I did wrong??
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA
> > > > >
> > > > > FrankM
> > > > >
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