topic Re: Plusnet DNS servers down?? in Broadband

Plusnet DNS servers down??

cjags — Tue, 14 May 2024 11:59:22 GMT

Internet is sluggish but connection speed is fine.

Did a PING on the Plusnet DNS server and got

Pinging 212.159.6.9 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Checked OpenDNS server and that is OK

Pinging 208.67.222.222 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.67.222.222: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 208.67.222.222: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 208.67.222.222: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 208.67.222.222: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56

Re: Plusnet DNS servers down??

pjmarsh — Tue, 14 May 2024 12:26:51 GMT

Everything seems fine for me. What you are showing there is just that the Plusnet DNS servers aren't responding to pings, which is the expected behaviour with them.

Re: Plusnet DNS servers down??

cjags — Tue, 14 May 2024 13:07:54 GMT

OK.

However, i switched from Plusnet DNS server to OpenDNS and internet sluggishness vanished.

Will switch back to Plusnet and see what happens.

Re: Plusnet DNS servers down??

Batfrog — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:33:30 GMT

It’s probably worth reading through this thread I started a few weeks ago. My observation is that Quad9 DNS is faster (and some of the many others) and certainly at least gives the perception of pages loading faster and a consistent slight (6Mb ish on my 80/20 FTTP) speed increase when doing a speed test. I know others who have similar experience.

https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Broadband-speed-and-DNS/m-p/1969220#M96100

Despite what the theory says I’ll stick with Quad9.

Re: Plusnet DNS servers down??

herojan — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:24:06 GMT

I'm seeing intermittent sluggishness too, most noticeable with streaming apps.

Something seems to be not quite right.