DNS wierdness and cox communications

[James Mcphee]

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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James McPhee
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